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Originally Posted by rdonj
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However, on the subject of whether it is acceptable to "throw" a game, I would like to comment. Personally, I have done this, in my second game. It was a noob game and early on, I allied myself with one of my neighbors. I decided I didn't care about winning, so long as the person who guaranteed my not winning was unable to claim victory. So, later in the game, when that player went AI and it was just me, my ally and another player standing, we called the game in favor of my ally, and I had no problem with giving him the win. [...]
If there is a nation which I really don't want to see winning the game, vs a nation who I'm allied with, and I have no chance to win the game myself... I will probably choose to back the one I dislike the least. Even if I'm not the one who wins, it gives me the satisfaction of my "side" winning. This sort of thing happens all the time. Giving someone your VPs to let them win is not really much different in my opinion.
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That's an interesting account rdonj, but it does not seem to me to be quite the same. It is one thing to concede, or to have enough players speak out in favour of a certain outcome in order to determine the win; but it is something else entirely to actively throw your vp's to someone in a contested race. At the very least, it would seem to be bad sportsmanship.
In every game, players end up backing some other players - they send them gems, they co-operate in wars, they give advice and information. But I've never seen someone actively work to throw his winning VP's to his ally.
I've asked many times for another example of what happened here having happened in another serious game of dominions, hopefully on these forums, and I have yet to receive any response on the matter.