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geoschmo said:
It's a tough call. You built your strategy around the lack of mines. Ratharkalinger spent research and resources setting them up. Neither of you is at fault, being an honest mistake on his part using the available tech compounding an honest mistake by the game owner allowing it.
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Well, HE is the one who proposed NOT playing with mines so I figure if I can manage to remember and abide by the parameters he set out (and that I agreed to), so should he. When I first noticed, I started to say something to him but (1) I figured I could depend on him sticking to what we agreed to and (2) I didn't want to tip my hand that I had researched Construction (which leads to fighters). So, I stayed quiet.
I also assumed he was not using mines as I wasn't because we were into turn 35 and I had already glassed 3 other colonies starting as early as 15 turns ago!
As to wasting research on it, I'm not really concerned about any damage he may have done to himself by not adherring to the agreed-upon parameters (despite the option being alive in the game settings). I'll give an analogy: If me and another person agreed to a race using only our feet and no wheeled conveyance and the person setting up the course had mistakenly forgot to remove the bicycles from the footpath, I wouldn't get on one and peddle away.