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Zapmeister said:
The point that is irking me is that my plan to go AI is being viewed as unethical by the game's administrator (and my nemesis in the game). When the game started, he explicitly said that he didn't want players that would drop when the going got tough. My view is that the situation is more than tough, it's hopeless, and that it serves no purpose to force a player to play on in those circumstances.
I think Cohen has been here before me, and I failed to properly appreciate the situation. My apologies to Cohen, if that's the case.
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Unethical??? Who's running the game, Stormbinder?
'Lame' would be a more appropriate adjective, especially if you have alliances / treaties and go AI. People get burned by that.
*shrug* I can understand wanting to quit in a blitz game - it's no fun to have your turn done in 1-5 minutes while everyone else is taking half an hour, while you have to stay near the computer just in case everyone gets done with their turns quickly.
If you're one of the smallest / weakest nations left, and don't have alliances and treaties, it probably doesn't do too much harm to quit and go AI - it certainly beats the behavior of those who simply stop bothering to do their turns.
Otherwise, you're shafting the other players in the game, not just your nemesis, kinda like quiting a game of risk or monopoly. The big bad probably gets to gobble up the AI run nation quicker than it would have against you.
No, it's not necessarily a boat load of fun, continuing when you're getting your boat kicked, but then again, it doesn't have to take an hour a turn. Also, you can try different things out, riskier / experimental than you normally would. Or try diplomacy and alliance against the nemesis.
But, please - don't apologize to Cohen. He quits when he is still one of the leading nations in the game, at least on one occasion he was _the_ top nation, according to the graphs. He also quits after making a kamakaze run against another player - he causes boatloads of damage to the other player's nation, finally gets repulsed, and takes his toys and goes home. All his own doing.