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Old January 13th, 2007, 06:02 PM
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What's wrong with diplomacy? If people come into games with preformed alliances - well, that isn't cricket. On the other hand, negotiating with the other players is a legitimate component of any multiplayer game.
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Also most games are played on small maps set to blitz settings and player-kill-player victories. Because more of those games can be played in the same time period, those games would have the most answers available. Since those games create a game where certain nations and strategies have advantages, I would hate to have people think that the rating reflected an overall rating of all players.

Other than that, its interesting to see the lists.

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Dr, I don't think there is anything wrong with diplomacy. I just feel that it has such a huge impact on multiplayer games what is the point of a tournament? The winners would be the ones who negotiated the best alliances.

And as players started winning games and gaining "points", it might become difficult for them to play multiplayer dominions because people might not make alliances with them that they would have otherwise, because of tournament standings.

I just feel a ranking system might have adverse effects on future MP games. It's all fine and good to say that when your playing a game of Dominions, you treat the pretender different than the player, but more than likely, players will be judged by their rankings and standings, and in game decisions may be affected by that.
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I myself don't think I should be on the list. I never really played dom2 and I am only on my 7th multiplayer game of dom3. I haven't even used many of the spells.

I would say my strongest aspect is the diplomacy side of the multiplayer game. Which I think is just as important or more so than any other part of the game.

Thanks for the nomination though.
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I vote for Quantum mechanics.
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