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Hmmm...

Zen - I like designing rules systems, so if you want I can put some thought into a tournament ranking system. To me it sounds like the guys at battlefields have their stuff together about things like this, so I'd be tempted to go with them, but the offer is there.


Others - "Ganging up on leader" isn't a problem. The whole point of the game is that you are trying to become THE god. If the best way to do that is to take down the most powerful guy, you should do it.

The "All beat the leader" is a big problem in games where in the game there is only one winner, but the situation the game is portraying could allow for more than one.

Eg - Playing a game of Medieval European politics and battle with friends. Two people allied, and pretty much took over the entire continent with a well timed backstab. In 'reality' they are both winners, they now each control half of Europe, and are strongly allied witht the other half - competely capably of stopping the other families (now minor houses, rather than rulers of nations) from ever getting a foot back on the throne.

In the game one was forced to attack the other, as the other had a few points more gold, and so would win the game.

This doesn't happen in Dominions. Any way to be Last one standing fits perfectly with what the game is about.