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Originally Posted by Bananadine
Back to cooperation: Suppose non-leading players band together against the leading player, until there's a new leading player. Suppose you happen to be the trailing player throughout. Is it really so likely that, now that the old leader is no longer the main danger, you are even further behind the new leader than you were behind the old one? That's tremendous chaos for y'all to be peeking through with your future glasses! And sure, you'd still probably be at or near the bottom of the ranking. But why wouldn't you have had fun taking part in the destruction of the leader?
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Following the tangent, since I don't think there's much more to say about the rest of the topic.
In some ways it would be nice if it played out that way. Though frustrating for the leaders and prone to all sorts of attempts to not look like the leader.
But what usually happens is people do get involved in their local wars and that's not always just short-sighted foolishness. It may be fun to take part in the destruction of the leader, but it's also fun to complete the destruction of the fool who attacked you and kept you from rising to great power status yourself. And of course you'd have to convince him to stop attacking you. You may have to give up gains you've won or accept that you won't get your stolen provinces back. And all of that just to shift the victory from one enemy to another.