[geoschmo]

I guess that would be ok. But how do you calculate who is entitled to receive the surrender? Seems to me it would require a significant amount of judgment from the program. You can do something to that effect now just by a gentlemans agreement, or vote of the remaining players. It would seem to me to be an uneccesary amount of code for something that would not be used all that much.

Personally I just prefer not allowing surrender at all. It just gives too much of a boost to the player receiveing the research and the big chunk of whatever is left of the empire. Players should have to take the planets, or recolonize them themselves.

If the guy getting whipped doesn't want to play till the bitter end just let the AI play out the string for him. If surrender is disallowed, the AI will as good a job of playing till the end than a human can do.

Geoschmo