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Graeme Dice said:
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ANY pre-game alliances should be announced before the game starts so that the other players can decide whether or not to play that way and form their own counter-alliances. Anything else is highly unethical.
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Go cry me a river. If there are no house rules about pre-game diplomacy, then anything goes. If you want to play a different type of game, then start your own and make the players anonymous.
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Not that my opinion matters really but I have to agree with Greame on this. How could pregame diplomacy not be allowed, if nothing is said about it? Even if it was an established community house rule, this is an open forum and some players may never have played a MP game of any kind before and would have to be told.
Still, actually I'm playing a Space Empires IV game where only in-game diplomacy is allowed and it's a very good
house rule . Makes coordination less powerful because of the 1 turn message delay and also you don't have to put lots of time into diplomatic emailing. I like diplomatic emailing, but it gets quite time consuming when playing many games.
