Team games: Teams vs Alliances

[Trumanator]

Originally Posted by Septimius Severus

But I do take exception to the idea that most team games here are of the tiny, partnership, duo variety. How many such duo games are currently running with threads on Shrapnel?

RAFT, Heat vs. Cold, and the entire NvV and NaV series are examples of team games with teams of more than just 2 players each. I think 3 or 4 players is probably a good managable team size, but larger teams can work as well if the communication and effort is there. Depending upon the hosting interval, forums are good for larger teams, while chat makes sense for tiny teams with shorter hosting intervals.

You're correct that recently there has been something of an uptick in larger team games. However, a look at Tyrant's admittedly outdated Hall of Fame shows a definite prevalence of team games consisting of several 2 person teams. There are 6 of this type on it, and I believe that there have been at least 3-4 more since its last update. Contrast this with the single "large scale teams" game on it currently (which I actually organized and admined btw), and even if we add your 3 NVV and 1 NAV games completed there is still a definite difference of around 9 or 10 to 5. For simplicity's sake I'm only counting completed games.