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In my first MP game, one nation was out by turn 7, due to dominion death. It is possible that the dominion 10 neighbour had not even made contact with troops yet, especially if they had explored in a different direction.

Gandalf Parker had some fun ideas relating to this and a smoking mirror pretender. However, even the game designers commented that it was possible Gandalf was insane. You might want to run a search on it, it was in the Dom II forums.