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					Originally Posted by WraithLord  Getting stuck with crappy, significantly weaker, nation in a RAND game is not fun. You know from the starters the game holds 0 promise for you. It's not fun the first time it happens, less fun the 2nd and gets worse for me - having had a bad luck streak with RAND nation assignment. When skill level is homogeneous there's no way to compensate for a weak nation. The nation selection element needs to be addressed.  | 
	
 Or you just have fun with what you're dealt, do what you can, and when you die, you die happy.
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		| As for diplomacy leading to excessive dog piling why not attack the bad angle instead of diplo as a whole?- like, say, Prohibit more than 2 nations attacking a given nation at a time. | 
	
 I don't think this is going to work.  What if three nations want to attack?  They have a lottery?  How do they even know they are all going to war that month?  How do you even know when a war is starting?  You'd have to declare all wars in advance.  What if secretly allied nations collude to have a 'pretend' war, preventing themselves from being attacked?  What if your only avenue of expansion is through a nation that is already at war with 2 other nations?