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I'm not calling you silly, I'm calling the reduction of the game in that way silly. I also invite you to think about what's wrong with it, since you offered.

People have won numerous games without gem generators. Obviously they haven't won without conquering territory. But you mentioned 'rushing', which I responded to. Conquering and rushing are pretty different terms in dom3, as I'm sure you realise.

If you want to show that it's not inarguable, by all means argue against it. I said nothing about creativity. I said rushing is more interactive than genhoarding. Rushing requires meaningful interaction with at least one other player, by definition. Genhoarding could involve trading for something from someone, so there's that I guess? It isn't really comparable in terms of interaction. And if by rushing you simply mean conquest, then the level of interaction there is WAAAAY higher.

Conquest, genhoarding and tartarians aren't comparable concepts. Conquest is absolutely essential to dom3 and encompasses a huge variety of strategies. Genhoarding and Tartarian massing are far more specific. You can win without doing either.