POLL: Backstabbing

[Pax]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Very interesting topic. very interesting questions.

I suggest you all become a bit more familiar with Machiavelli.

This game is about war, really, (unless someone has defined other game purposes). And good players play to win.

Funny. I thought good players played games to have fun. Winning isn't everything, you know.

When a player does "backstab," you better believe it is remembered, and even carried over into other games. That player will get a reputation for being "dirty" or maybe "ruthless." You will think twice before exposing yourself to them again. That is human nature, no matter how hard we try to be objective.

Feh. Remind me ... NEVER to play a game of SE4 against you.

If you can't seperate player from character, then IMO, you have no business playing anything more advanced than checkers, except against an AI.

That is the unwritten rule that ties us together as gamers; we don't want to get a bad rep for being deceptive and sneaky (some would say clever)... yet it is very much part of the game. So we do it with some sort of honor.

As a gamer, what I expect is, noone will cheat; THAT, I remember from game to game.

But the actions of a RACE, do not speak to the actions of that PLAYER. And actions in one game do not speak to actions in another, unless that player is so singularly unimaginative as to only be able to create one race, in terms of behavior (if that many).