[Dragonlord]

One thing I want to mention:

If a player shows signs of wanting to give up, exhort him to NOT surrender to another race if the game is still in the early stages, since that would really upset the balance of the game. Get a replacement player in stead and make sure the original player gives you the empire's password in case he changed it.

In one of my games I had to kick 3 replacement candidates because (#&@(*#*@ Kull the Conqueror up and left all his games without giving notice, he changed his password so nobody can take over now, and his empire is in 1st place after some 20 turns played, so I don't really want to have it AI controlled.