The tournament and a question of ethics - newbie question

[geoschmo]

Possibly. But a wise player will not advertise his alliances. So you will not really know who has alliances and who doesn't.

In fact a group that has an known alliance could be come targets themselves of the other players as a whole, rather than allow the alliance to pick off all the single players one at a time they will possibly band together and try to break them up.

Plus, an alliance may not nessecarily help you. Cause the single player facing an alliance doesn't have to beat everybody, only one person. Or they can survive by beating no one and just surviving long enough that some other poor sap on the other side of the quadrant gets it first.

EDIT: Not to mention, you could make an alliance before the game, and when the game starts you aren't anywhere near your allies in the galaxy. That would be an uncomfortable position to be in, especially if your alliance is well known to everyone.

Geoschmo

[ August 23, 2002, 19:19: Message edited by: geoschmo ]