Egads what a gab fest over a subject that has been beaten to death
several times before on both the old forum page and GSI's message
board.
Please forgive. I've not been involved in this conversation before. It is new to me. People come in and out of the game all the time. What is an "old topic" to some, may be new to others.
Darrell if he's the only one left you guys must have almost as
many characters in each and every category as he has total
characters, seems like coordinated use would finish the game quickly.
It is a 12v12 special rules, modified grudge game. No kidnap or assassinate allowed. We're going to have to track down this bug with armies, and with 11 of his teammates out, he'll have lots of places to InfOthr away to hide in the hills.
Either all 12 of us stay in to get good map coverage to chace him down wherever he hides, or a few of us could spend dozens of turns chasing the bug from one area to another. All to end a game that was a "done deal" after GT10.
How many major towns can you see but not account for the owners?
No idea how many MTs might be out there. In 4th age, with starting 60 emissaries out the A..... We saw no offensive use of emissaries, so those emissaries may have been very busy creating pops for this guy to pick up off droped nations.
I totally disagree with whoever posted the make players pay up front
for a minimum number of turns no refunds thought. I think that would
drive many players from the game. I haven't heard much on the rating
system, but it was my understanding that this was more a tool to help
Clint set up more competitive games among players with approximately
the same skills.
NO!!!!! if that is all it was to be used for, then he could just keep a list of how many games you've been in and how many you've won.
The monster that is to be the player ranking system will create a list of "best players" that will be shoved in everyone faces on a monthly mailing and on the web site. Unfortunatly, these "best players" will be bugs that hid for a dozen turns until the opposition got frustrated and went looking for an enjoyable game.
Player rankings is the absolute WORST thing that could happen to MEPBM.
Darrell Shimel
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I do think however that there is probably a way to
track those who continually drop early in the game for no apparent
reason, or at the first experience of a reversal they give up. In
those cases I believe Clint could point out to them how disruptive to
their team mates that behavior is and warn that player he will be in
a probationary status for, say his next two games, and if he
continues his past drop propensity he will suffer a ban of say 6
months, before being accepted into a new game. That might make throw
away games less common among this type of players.>
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