Time for a poll. (The subject is abuse)

[Edratman]

silhouette said:

Well, don't forget it may happen via collusion of more than one opponent as well. For example, if the leader of an MP game puts up the Forge global, and nobody is in a position to Dispel it, I would completely try to make an alliance of the other players who would each send a dozen items. It's a way to deny the one player use of forging, and it seems like a useful and valid tactic to me. And it is sort of self-balancing: if it's a one on one situation, you would have to commit X% of your lab/forging to deny the opponent the same percent of his capability.

Sill

The collusion angle of lab filling does present a whole new aspect to the ploy. I followed the thread (and many others) under the basic assumption that (occasionally) there are players who utilize tactics that the vast majority of players do not consider valid or in the spirit the developers intended because of various reasons. There is general, but not universal, consensus on almost all of these actions.


But when I read that two or more players may unite to fill an opponents lab presents a whole new perspective.

To be honest, I cannot even decide if it makes the ploy more valid or less valid. Previously I thought it would require a significent effort from a single player to forge adequate number of slave collars to effectively fill an opponents lab and block new forgings. But to learn that 2, 3 or 4 players would think that this is a good move and thus each would contribute an easily manageable quantity of items to fill one players lab is entirely different.

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I wouldn't want to play in a game where lab-filling is considered a valid tactic.

I mean, what the heck is that? How does it possibly make sense in the reality of the game? Your lab is a fixed size which can only handle so many items, and you've got morons working on your docks, who clutter up your lab with so much junk that when your mage steps in to craft an item, he trips over them and drops all his gems and they spill down the drain some other moron installed in the floor?

It's just abuse of the mechanics of the game's interface, in this case the fact that there's no interface implemented so nations can refuse 'gifts' of items from other nations. It's got nothing to do with mages and spells and forging and research or any kind of fun stuff like that.

Please don't go and assume I'm in the 'Wrathful Skies + SR100% is an exploit' crowd though (though I think that crowd is pretty small). I just want stuff to make sense in the context of the game. I don't think I'm in a minority in that respect either.