[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by Cohen:
If you know you'll play another Nation, why not to do the pretender as weak as possible?

Because if everyone does it, then they get a junk pretender back. I guess what I was trying for was: Make something you wouldn't mind playing as OR playing against. If the optimal solution for Switcheroo is design a WEAK pretender, then remind players that you might get it thrown back in your face-- either courtesy of someone else who had the same idea, or your own concept boomeranging on you.

And perhaps you find yourself playing with a Nation you dislike, or you'ren't skilled in (especially for newbies) ...

Part of the risk.

I believe this is not realizable.

Also I haven't been around long enough to really get all that deep into things, but I see there's been quite a run of response in 12 hours, I'll have to wade through the rest and maybe modify the idea. If and when I get into an MP (is there a MP rookie league?) I want there to be a variety of designs out there, not variations on a (rather depressing) theme...
Oh and the closest I've come to anything involving clams is that when I picked that picture I'd had fish and chips for lunch that day.