Yes. There will always be a free element of CoN. You may play all of the maps free of charge.

We respect all players’ information. The administrators have no access to passwords, and we will not sell emails. You may receive game-related emails from CoN, or Elysiax, LLC, but no information will be shared with a third party.

Follow the 'forgot password' link on the sign in page. You will be prompted to confirm your email address and user name, and a new password will then be emailed to you. If you have also forgotten either your user name or email then you should submit a support ticket through CoN Help and an admin will help reset your password.

CoN is played entirely from your browser, so there is nothing to download.

CoN has been designed to work with Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, and Opera. However, CoN will not display properly on IE6 or lower - you will need to switch to another browser or upgrade to a newer version of IE.

Enabling javascript and cookies is critical for the site to run in your browser.

All games update automatically at the end of a turn. There are two ways a game can update, depending on its settings: (i) after all players have entered and locked their orders, or (ii) after a certain period of time.

It can differ greatly. Fast games are typically played in a few hours. Normal games with default settings may last a couple weeks. Custom games with longer settings could take up to several months.

A default game will update one every day. Players may communicate from one another but their identities are hidden. players are randomly assigned a country at the beginning of a game.

No-press - players cannot communicate during the game.

Anonymous - players cannot view the user name of their opponents until after the game is over.

No weekend updates - a game will not update on the weekends.

Support is an order by which a unit helps another attacking unit. A unit's support may be 'cut' if it is attacked by another unit (other than the one which the unit is supporting against).

Yes. Simply click 'unlock' to enter new orders.

You may create up to 2 games that have not started at a time.

Fast games have 10 minute diplomatic phases with 5 minute reinforcement and retreat phases. These games can typically be finished in several hours.

Reinforcement phases occur on even-numbered turns, during which players who have open build centers and control more colonies than they have units will be allowed to build new armies or fleets.

Each turn of the game will have a Diplomatic phase. If any units are forced to retreat, that turn will then have a Retreat phase. On even-numbered turns, if any country can place new reinforcements, then there will be a Reinforcement phase. See the full rules for more details.

Some maps have a railway which allows an army that starts a turn on the railroad to move more than territory space along the rail. If any foreign power attacks onto the railway during that turn, the army will be stopped in the last railroad territory before his movement was blocked. Friendly armies do NOT block railway movement.

Some maps allow a player to move between locations off the map by using the boxes on the edge of the map. It takes one turn to move into the box and an additional turn to then move to any territory considered adjacent to the box.

Yes. A foreign fleet can convoy another country's armies; however, that power must separately create a convoy order for his fleets that matches the army's convoy orders. An army may be convoyed over any distance so long as there are adjacent fleets that are ordered to convoy it.

In most games, if a player fails to enter orders for two straight turns, he will be removed from the game and suffer a loss of 5 points. If a player does not wish to enter orders, he should either click 'lock orders' or 'enter no orders' to indicate that he has not simply neglected to enter orders.

In your account settings, you can set your status to 'vacation mode'. There, you will set your leave and return dates for your vacation - a vacation must be at least 2 days. If any of your games updates during that time, you will automatically be removed from those games without any points penalty.

To prevent any player from abusing this feature, CoN makes it impossible to play any games during the vacation period.

No player is permitted to have more than one account on CoN. If a player creates more than one account, we will remove the offending account(s). Players impermissibly playing more than one account in the same game face a permanent ban from the site.

In addition, attempting to communicate with other players in a no-press game is considered cheating.

We have spent a great deal of time and energy creating safeguards to identify and prevent cheating. Whenever a player tries to join a new game, our scripts will bar any player if it appears he has multiple accounts in that game. In addition, we respond quickly to any reports of suspected cheating and will immediately remove any players who are confirmed to be cheating.

The penalty for cheating may differ depending on how egregious the cheating was. A player with multiple accounts will have his extra accounts permanently blocked. Players operating more than one account in the same game will be removed immediately from the offending games and may be permanently banned from the site.

Army C will dislodge A, who will have to retreat. Even though Army B was supporting Army A holding, that support was broken because army A attempted to attack elsewhere. Consequently, army C's attack is 2 versus 1 and beats A.

Yes. Even if a supporting unit has support himself, that additional support can only help prevent the army from being dislodged, it does prevent the support from being cut. Thus, army A's support is cut but he defeats the attack.

Armies A and C also remain in place. Because A bounces, it remains in its territory. Army C's attack is thus 1 versus 1 and bounces as well. All armies stay where they began.