Is this gamey?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Assuming the player is keeping all those resources for himself then you are quite correct. What if, however, he is gifting resources back to the player who gifted the planet?

Well that's kind of a convoluted method of resource procurement. If I found someone going through all that trouble in a game to get a measely 50K minerals every turn I would be more concerned about what other shenanigans they were up to. In that case the minerals themselves would be less of a problem themselves and more of a symptom of a general lack of sportsmanship. I would not like to play with them again, or their co-conspirator.

I have no trouble whatsoever with players helping each other out in games. But when one is doing so to the absolute exclusion of his own empire and getting nothing in return, as in this case of gifting away all his trade income instead of using it to rebuild his empire, then that isn't gamey. It's cheating.

Geoschmo

[ July 25, 2003, 13:51: Message edited by: geoschmo ]