JurijD and Roanon, I think you both are misunderstanding me completely. Actually, I can't speak for Loser, but the comment about GW is not at all what confused me. I did consider that part of the sentance to be a joke and was not in the least offended by it. I have a much thicker skin then that, as most reasonable people do. Anyway, even if taken offensively (which I did not do) your comment wasn't directed at me personally, but at the Prez. Americans have a long history of making fun of our leaders.
The question in my mind was whether you were suggesting an actual concrete house rule for the game
in a joking manner. "Noone becomes a terrorist and forms an "Axis of Evil" because he lost his/her home system to a Star destroyer." read in that context could mean any number of things.
Does the rule mean if someone takes out my homesystem I can't retaliate? I can't make an alliance if neccesary and go after the empire that blew up my sun? That seems to me a preposterous rule, but it also seems that is what you are suggesting. That is the reason that you needed to clarify the rule, not because of your offhanded tease at GW.
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Originally posted by JurijD:
And why didn't u trip over the : Don't play SE IV and drive. The consequences can be dire. "RULE" 
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Beacuse that is more obviously intended to be purely a joke, and it doesn't relate at all to behavior in the game which is the only thing that is the perogative of a game owner anyway. You could just as likely say, "No eating crackers while playing" and noone would take it seriously because it's none of your business what we eat while playing, and how would you know if we did anyway? The other rule is more like something that would be your business as the game owner, and something close enough to legitimate rules people have suggested in the past that it seemed possible you did intend for it to be taken seriously, in substance if not in presentation.
Geoschmo
[ December 11, 2003, 13:25: Message edited by: geoschmo ]