Possible Survivor 2 tourney...

[geoschmo]

Well in survivor one it never came up, but I was sort of prepared for that. The rule was to be that if you had no more planets, and no colony ships that could establish a colony you were eliminated.

We could go beyond that even and say you must not lose contact, then the colony ships wouldn't be enough. You'd have to have at least one planet somewhere to remain in the game.

As far as allowing your ally to hide on a protected moon or something. That could be considered a bit cheesy. I would hope something like that would not happen. What would concern me most about something like that is if the protected player were then assumed to "owe" the other guy where in a later round they would maybe take a dive. That would be definate collusion. But two players agreeing to band together in an alliance and help each other out until they were the only two left would be ok I think. Although they might not be in a position to help each other in every round. Helping an ally survive is OK I think, where laying down so an ally can advance without you is not.

I would hesitate to make a strict rule there though cause where do you draw the line? Is one moon not enough, but trading a whole systems worth of planets for one that is on the other side of your allies territory ok?

And what of the legitimate case where the empire happend to colonize that planet and it happens to be the only bastion of their empire left, but is well protected. There they weren't really manipulating things intentionally, it just worked out that way?

Also, I didn't say this, but if two empires were eliminated on the same turn I would just drop both of them, instead of trying to split hairs and try to figure out which one went first. That DID almost come up in Survivor I.

Geoschmo

[ June 14, 2002, 18:43: Message edited by: geoschmo ]