It is a game. So is Chess. World Class Chess players quit all the
time. They call it resigning. Some call it the "index finger to
king" move, because it is accomplished by knocking the king over with
a finger.
They give in because they can see defeat and if they can see defeat then
their opponent can see victory and there is no way to stop the inevitable.
When the game is mathematiclly hopeless, it's time to save the
turnfee and move on to the next one. Unless you get some sort of
sick satisfaction from making the better players on the winning team
spend more cash on turnfees than you do as a holdout, I can't see the
logic in your position - and that's the kind of player that I'd just
as soon not play with.
You can still win when outnumbered by huge numbers. This is what the one
ring victory condition is there for. Very hard to accomplish and therefore
used as a last resort option. There is also no guarantee that the other side
are better players. Just that they worked together better as a team. I seem
to have difficulty in finding teams that work REALLY well together.
As for the Elrond comment, I can see him getting into a boat and
leaving Middle Earth, to the Isles in the West. Plenty of Elves did.
I do find it somewhat sad that you didn't picture yourself on the
winning side either.
Plenty of Elves did leave but not because they were getting killed by
servants of darkness. If I am on the winning side I don't mind chasing down
the one remaining player who is going for the One Ring victory. I would even
congratulate them on holding out for so long.
So was that a vote for changing or not changing the scoring system?
In effect it was an abstention as whatever happens to the Scoring it has
no effect on the way I play the game.
Thomas Crane
P.S. I have never owned the Mantle of Doriath and so have never continued on
with a way to hide my Pop Centres.