[sergex]

Another problem I can think of is collusion between players. When you get a Free for All and a few of the players collude to not fight each other until they eliminate the other people, it's unfair to those others. Even without a planned collusion I would still be less likely to attack someone I'm friendly with than someone who is a stranger.

Unfortunately there is no "teams" setting for Dom2. It would be nice to set up a team game where you can set up allied nations at the beginning and set it to an allied victory. You'd be able to travel through your allies' territory as if it were your own and be able to attack provinces together. I think that would be a huge test of strategy and teamwork for a tournament structure.

However, barring that, you will probably see a lot of "pre-teaming" in the FFA games. Perhaps 1on1 would be the best way to go for prize tournaments. If you have a 5 man FFA and 3 of the people are good friends then the other 2 don't even have a slight chance to prevail.

And on the subject of having timeley games, is there a way to set it so the game Lasts X amount of turns and at the end each person's provinces are totaled and that determines the victor? Say, the game will Last 70 turns and then the players get ranked based on how many lands they've won.

[ April 26, 2004, 19:09: Message edited by: sergex ]