[kasnavada]

Yeah, real world troolling... it always amaze me that Europe should be somehow "thankful" to the USA for their efforts in the 20th century wars when the conveniently forget the help they recieved them a few century before. In my opinion, it's better to forget about old grudges and that kind of stuff, and just get along, but the higher-up seem to be of another mind (all the fuss about irak ring a bell ?).

Not that it has any point either way : in a few decades, the Usa will be in the exact same position as Europe is now. A decadent place full of pride but with little decisional power or influence. And another place will rise to take its place and commit the same mistakes over and over again : try to impose its way of life over the whole world.

About the game "hall of shame", I think it's rather pathetic to make one. It's just a conflict of opinion and common sense. An example : ganging up 3 to 1 isn't evil, in fact, it saves a lot of the country military, avoid unrest, reduces unrest and civilian casualties, and repercussions due to being at war. It also makes sense when you wish to win.

Another example : backstabbing. Making a hall of shame for that means that RP is dead. I don't really think I need to explain that.

It's "unfair" only if you believe that the game should be somehow "fair". But then, what you want to do isn't a war, it's a duel or a match. And, last time I've heard, Dominions is a war game, and in a war, the victor writes history. Anyway, in my opinion, the only things that would deserve being in a hall of shame would deserve being kicked from the game and forum altogether : failing to see the difference between game and reality (carrying grudges over games for example, or insults to the person and not to the avatar played), metagaming like hacking (today it's called social engineering though most of the time), and that's basically it.