[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by primitive:
As the player who got the surrender and requested the roll back i guess I have to make some comments.

I do roleplay my race. The Taolosian fight for honor and sport and I try to do everything in character. During the whole "war" I took 1 planet and did not destroy a single ship. There are no way the Taolosians would have accepted a surrender after such a minor skirmish. I do want to win the game, but I also want to do it a manner I can be proud of. You dropping 10+ systems in my lap would make the game less enjoyable for me, so I asked the remaining players if we could roll back the turn and mark your empire dead instead.

I would urge anybody leaving a game to consider how their leaving could make the game fairer and more fun for the remaining players, not the opposite.

And the other side of the coin is?

By addressing your need to make your people happy you totally pissed mine off. So I mothball shops and spend hours trying to fix the budget shortfall. Then your ally attacks and before I can scrape enough funds together to put the fleets back in service, every one is on strike again. At this point it has become a chore to make the turns, so I gave you the privilege of doing my part. And we were at war. You by act and me by declaration. Also, I asked for peace and a deal before you took the stack. But if I recall the act of taking them was as important as having them.

At any rate I have no problem with what you did. It was the lack of consult and then the way the game was halted that frosted my nads.