Is this gamey?

[Roanon]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I don't have a problem with a little wheeling and dealing. But when it gets to the point where you have two or three empires and one is researching ships, one is researching weapons and one is researching shields and all trading what each of them gets, I have a problem.

First of all it's incredibly tedious and boring to me to do this. Secondly as I said before it takes the real diplomacy out of the game for me, which is one of my favorite parts.

I totally agree. And not only takes diplomacy out of the game, but also strategy and variety - no need to ponder what to research next if you have everything covered by your allies.

Of course I pay a price for my lack of conformity. It is not uncommon at all for me to be seriously behind in tech by turn 40 in a game.

Other method: I don't join any game with tech trading enabled. Ship tech trading is worse enough, but at least not that easy. I don't think that is limiting the game too much.

[ July 29, 2003, 14:15: Message edited by: Roanon ]