Not too long ago I played an e-mail game of Emperor of the Fading Suns with 4 other humans and no AI players where one guy had 3 times as much power as the #2 player, and I was at the bottom but his ally. Everyone else turned on him purely because of his size (the MEE mindset working among human players) but I managed to score him the victory anyway giving myself an unofficial allied victory. It was a lot of fun. I think really weak players stand to gain so much by allying with a MEE that they really ought to be more likely to side with it, than oppose it.
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