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geoschmo said:
I think I clarified that I don't like playing games where team victory is a valid result. Does that not mean that ultimatly everybody in the game is your opponent? Even if you are temporarily playing as allies?
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Yes, you did, and I understood that. I was merely commenting on your questions from an earlier post. As to your questions here, everyone in an SEIV game is my opponent unless I make a treaty with them. Then they're my ally and I don't plot against them, don't try and improve my position at their expense, and never launch Pearl Harbor style attacks when I think I have the upper hand and it's to my advantage to do so. I don't usually play temporarily as allies and in those situations where I do, such as in the 2003 PBW Open Tournament where I allied with both Joachim and Sammurai Programmer, made it absolutely clear up front that the alliance was strictly temporary. While the alliance was in place I did nothing to further my position at the expense of those two allies, who I'm pleased to say treated me the same in reverse.