Needs a lot of work

I just found this app and already feel the need to reiterate many points made by previous reviews. First is the basic turn system (not the rules but the interface): the app doesnt tell you what country you are, what season or year it is, and often doesnt say what moves I planned leaving me wondering if the game registered that I wish to move troops from Germany into Austria. Also I wish there was some acknowledgement of who did what, who supported who, and who moved where.

Second is the chat, it is always getting stuck when typing medium messages and they need to be lengthened or shortened just to see the send button; also I wish the was some notification when you are sent a message. Also I often see that my communications with other countries are often removed and I cant see who my allies are by reviewing the messages.

Third is notifications in general. I wish the app used push notifications to alert the player of events in the game. Some of these that I think are needed are: the end/start of a turn, a warning that there is only x minutes before the turn ends, when I get a message, and when I am invaded.

Over all I believe that this app needs a new update soon or be pulled from the store entirely. There can be no middle ground here, this app is to big of a failure to continue in its current form. As a new diplomacy player the horrific user interface of this app almost caused me and a few of my friends to permanently give up on the game as a whole. And so I beg the developers of the atrocious app to either fix their mistakes or acknowledge that they have given up and remove this game from the store.

boy scout 456 about The Game of Diplomacy, v2.1.1