Gamey tactics discussion thread

[Fyron]

Starhawk said:
Yeah but now a days we don't have battleships that can kill 100s of millions of people with a single assault pass on your planet lol.

Yes we do. It is called the B2 stealth bomber, armed with hydrogen bombs. Just a couple of those would annihiliate any nation...

Sorry but I think in an era where a single capital ship can kill millions of people they would not put up much resistance.

Just as in an era with nuclear bombs, those in Afghanistan and Iraq put up no resistance at all and just smoothly transition from the old government to the new without any fuss?

[rdouglass]

Imperator Fyron said:
...Just as in an era with nuclear bombs, those in Afghanistan and Iraq put up no resistance at all and just smoothly transition from the old government to the new without any fuss?

What? Fyron, up until this statement, I thought you were making sense. Where have you been the past coupla' years? I see nothing smooth at all in those two countries...

[Fyron]

rdouglass said:

What? Fyron, up until this statement, I thought you were making sense. Where have you been the past coupla' years? I see nothing smooth at all in those two countries...

Giving a real life example of how the threat of total annihiliation should have worked, if his proposition was true.

...and often when a player surrenders, all his planets are rioting and you have to spend who knowns how many turns to end them, so that could be turmoil.

More often they have police troops and are still jubilant...

[Tanus]

On a similar note to surrender, in a game I'm currently playing, with surrender disabled, my enemy was down to 2 systems, and he just gifted them all and all his ships to one of his allies to avoid being captured.

I'll still get them in the end, but I still think it's a cheap, or 'gamey' tactic.

[Fyron]

That is why, in addition to disabling surrender, you need a house rule such as this:

Surrender is disallowed. Therefore, gifting all of your planets, ships, etc. to another empire, which is an attempt to subvert this rule, is also disallowed. If you happen to see other players do this in the game, tell me, and I will investigate the situation. If this rule has been broken, I will upload an old turn to prevent it from happening, and I will consider kicking the offending players from the game.