PBW : Paranoia2

[Nocturnal]

I would have assumed no gifts anyway! Think about it...

"I want to send a fleet to guard your border. *Evil cackling heard in background.*"
"Just gift them to me."
"My evil plans, foiled!"

[Unknown_Enemy]

PONTINE LEEPERS LAW
It is forbidden to give planets to a player. You can exchange ships if you want, but no player should be artificially keept alive by the mean of planetary gifts.


From Paranoia 1 and the infamous Pontine misconduct (may they be cursed for eons), we can say that if a small empire is sold a colony ship, it is at risk of loosing it very easily by the mean of intel attacks. Planets can be harder to destroy with intel, and I want to keep ship trade in the game.

[Unknown_Enemy]

and I edited the game's settings as well.

[ November 25, 2003, 09:59: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

[spoon]

You really would need to ban the gifting of colony ships as well, otherwise the Law is too easy to circumvent, intel or no.

[spoon]

Actually, I guess the Law could be circumvented in a number of ways:
1) Gifting colony ships
2) Gifting a ship with troops
3) Gifting Construction ships/bases
4) Letting PPP intel attacks get through (though this one is slightly risky, since you'd have to drop all your CounterIntel)

Any others?

[se5a]

can we restrict partnership treatys to only 2 empires? (ie yourself and one other)
that way intell wont get totaly out of hand.

I wouldent mind using the pvk balance mod,
I like haveing strong troops...

[PvK]

Gifting ships leaves many loopholes for perpetuating indefinitely any empire who isn't as lame as the Pontine Lepers were.

To add to the list:

5) Gifting a ship with boarding parties or allegiance converter, which happens to be stacked with a colony ship.

PvK