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Here are some general guidelines to follow - there is no enforcement of these rules. If you consider yourself a honorable player, read on:


1. The Game

It's a game about world domination, so expect other players to use dirty strategies to reach their goal.

a) do not go after the same player in other games just to get revenge.
b) just because somebody is going against you in several games does not necessary mean he is out for revenge - you might just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.


2. Breaking Alliances/Non-Agressive Pacts

There is nothing wrong breaking an alliance or a non-agressive pact. See rule 1.


3. Unavailablility to Play Turns

Ask for a fixed turn cease-fire before you leave. Plus send a text message explaining your situation. Other players are encouraged to accept the cease-fire. The favor will be returned to you once you find yourself in the same situation.

Note: Just posting your leave in the forum is not a good way to do things. A fixed turn cease-fire makes it clear on when you are absent, where as posting in the forum doesn't. "Sunday" here is "Monday" in other parts of the world. Not everybody is reading the forums.


4. Do not use foul language

There are no cheat-codes. It's all fair game. There is no reason to use foul language during messaging - unless it's part of the game and NOT PERSONAL. See rule 1.

what? no one has posted in here yet? OK

So why cant I go after someone if I feel like it? Maybe that is my "dirty tactic"

Well, I suppose nothing official. I guess it depends on what you mean by go after someone. While dirty tactics are permitted within the scope of the game as outlined above. At the same time It does allow for good or honourable tactics.

Example, someone could x-ally me, as a dirty tactic. I won't get bent out of shape over it but it won't stop me from asking for help to punish them for pulling a dirty tactic. And I won't stop me from losing any trust I might have in them as an ally in other games. I won't seek revenge, but then again, there is a good chance I won't trust any more allies with them and I'm likely to not agree to any ally. Once again, not because of revenge but as a tactic to not fall prey to a dirty tactic.

So someone can use dirty tactics but they may not get away with it. It's a chance one must decide to take. For me it's not worth taking the chance. Plus I find the game more of a challenge to not use dirty tactics.

I guess it's kind of like the dark side of the force. The quick and easy way is not always the best way. i guess that makes me a Jedi Knight. . Hmm, I wonder if I need to change my avatar now?

Wow, yes, I cannot believe you are the first person to reply.

Again, it's just a general guideline that I wrote. Also, reading through it again, I am actually still standing behind it.

so why is going after somebody in all games is bad, while x-allying someone is ok?

Because it's only a game. Using backhanded tactics in a game is allowed. Going on a vendetta against someone is childish and foolish.

Yes, that makes lots of sense. How do you know this anyway?

I can't believe you guys entertained that question after the post went untouched for nearly four years.

It's Klam, he's only looking to cause trouble. Don't make me have to say "I told you so" YET AGAIN. Not that I wouldn't enjoy it... I'm just sure you're all sick of hearing it.

But ... but ... he actually accepted my answer!

Besides, some n00bs might be reading this, especially given the title, and they deserve to know that there are people here with a whole lot more common sense than Klam.

Which also provides the simple answer to Klam's follow-up question.

Voicing my opinion



From my viewpoint:

1). The game's victory objective is to attain 145 points through either conquering enough territories to attain 145 points, or players can form agreements such as alliances to form reducing the number of territories needed to be conquered in order to win.
1 point per owned territory.
.35 per ally's owned territory
.10 per territory through non-aggressions pacts.

By default, when a player acquires 145 points, the player has conquered the board. Inevitably, this means that these very agreements are used to conquer your territory without being forced to fire a shot.

2). Vendettas are a decision resulting from a different or previous game. Such grudge based decisions takes into account of a past game or games resulting in establishing old ties into a new and/or different game that inevitably becomes extensions of a different game.
Decisions based on grudges creates static games, and static games creates uninteresting and boring games. Boring games eventually get put onto the shelf and placed on a table at a garage sale/yard sale. In simple terms, the game becomes less and less fun, and the purpose of all games is to be fun while attaining the game's objective is to win.

In simple terms, the ability to cancel agreements recognizes how diplomatic ties change over time.

This thread wasn't supposed to be about a debate.

I vote for threadocide. Cleanse this page!

I would do it. But I'm not sure that it's really needed.

hold on now... wasn't TL part of the Resistance?!? wasn't that nothing more than a loosely organized vendetta against marty and the star empire?!?

i have to rib him on this... cuz i know he likes killing stars just as much as the next guy

I think now all agree the "Resistance" was childish. Since long time i`m not part of the Spammings previously made by the Stars and SRG. ( Most was begginers and havent counted how much starts there was in the game ) But even today, i saw myself in a game with 4 GOW ( Elaquin ), and noone complain or accuse them of cheating. But like everything is past, we must let it go.

Don't sell the Resistance short. It was much, much more than that. And yes, I was recruited, although I felt much like Shakespeare's Brutus to KH's Cassius.

Anyway it was no vendetta. We didn't go after Marty and the stars for the sake of going after them. We monitored the games they joined, and when we observed them clan-spamming a game we'd join that same game to even the odds a bit. The fact that Marty and his minions had zero chance of success when the playing field is levelled wasn't our fault.

And Kran, you can't be seriously comparing the GOW to the Stars. I myself am currently in a tournament game with 3 (long dead) SRGs and 3 (alive and well) GOWs. The GOWs did not use clanspamming tactics and gang up on other players. In fact Skywatcher is swapping land with Randomnist, allowing him to make conquests that will drop Wodan out of the top 4.

I have no qualms about joining games with 4 GOWs, or with similar numbers of players from most clans, because they're people I know and trust and they won't use clanspamming tactics like Marty and his ilk constantly rely on as a substitute for playing skill.