No Diplo EA Game - No Wankers Allowed - Game Over, Baalz/Abysia Wins

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by Baalz

So, it's just occurred to me that with the strict anonymity of this game and everyones commitment to play till the death this is going to lead to a very long and miserable end game once the winner is obvious and no concession is possible. The mirco involved in controlling a 200+ province empire when all remaining players are in guerrilla/raiding/"bunker in castle" mode sounds like punishment for bad acts in a past life, while the non-winning players are presumably having a fairly limited amount of fun. I wonder if maybe we could, assuming unanimous consent, alter the victory conditions to be something achievable while the game is still somewhat fun? Perhaps something like when one nation is in control of all capitals?

Yes, the victory conditions for this game might not be the best given the size of the map, and anonymous aspect of the players.

I'm pushed for time today, but tomorrow I will privately contact each player (as thread posts/discussion might give away clues to player ID's) to gather their opinion, and will likely offer everyone a few options with regards what to do about the victory conditions. Not exactly sure what those options will be yet, but probably a choice between keeping the original victory conditions, switching to requiring all capitals (as suggested above) or a percentage/fixed number of capitals. (the latter will likely need another sub-vote for what percentage/fixed number is required). Or perhaps a majority concession rather than a total one, such as 2/3 or 3/4 etc.

I doubt a victory condition that isn't based on capitals or concession in some way is feasible given how far into the game we've gone. But like I said I'll aim to come up with something over the next 24 hours or so, and circulate it via PM to obtain feedback and votes.


(if anyone wants to give feedback on this before I contact them, then please do so to me via PM. Or if you want to post on the thread in order to convey your message to all players, then maybe again please PM the message to me and I'll post it for you anonymously. As posting on this matter might for example inadvertently give clues to your ID, since an innocent post saying "I don't mind what the victory conditions are" could indicate you have no chance of winning, and therefore give some clue as to your ID. Which I'd like to avoid for obvious reasons)