[Slynky]

First of all, Geo, I'm not angry with you. I figure you to be an honest and fair person. Much more than the average person.

Having said that, I merely disagreed with you in that if a person makes a mistake in a game, his damage to his game is not my concern. That's my opinion. That's all.

As to not being able to see where no mines were specified, please look to my quote where he said "things like mines were only temporary speedbumps". I took that to mean he favored taking mines out of the game so I specifically listed "No mines" in bold type in the portion of the game settings attributed to his suggestions. (then I added my suggestions below in bold in a different section I referred to as my proposal for settings)

And, once again, IN a game without mines, I chose to research fighters as a good early impediment to attacks. To have told him on, say Turn 10, that I discovered mines had been left in the game, any opponent could have discerned that I had researched Construction in order to see that mines were still available as a research item. AND, since I was reminding my opponent that mines were not allowed, I MUST have been researching Construction for another reason...well...fighters would be the best guess. I felt it damaged my strategy to give that kind of information at that point in the game. By the time he learned of my fighters (and lost 4 or 5 ships to 24 fighters), I had not seen any mines in the game. This was around turn 30 (give or take). At this point, after having glassed several planets already, I assumed (and perhaps that's where I made a mistake) he understood no mines were to be used as SURELY he would have been using them by now!