Game Proposal: Smash TV

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had some thoughts. i think it would get by if two empires wanted to have an unrestricted war and neither of them reported anything to the judiciary race.

also, i can see smartbombs being used against planets without any problems. And since the only way the Judiciary race would know if a planet was fired on is to check the before-and-after population, people might get away with 'fire until weapons are destroyed' orders if they are carefull about it. also on that note, i am not sure how to stop someone from abandoning a planet and blaming their blocader for bombing them. I will have to experiment with abandoning colonies to see what sort of notice is given.

people should not be concerned about the judge coming in and glassing their planets though, all corrective action will be taken by nullifying border claims or declaring free-fire zones, or trade sanction. in the worst case, the judge might step in to defend a race who is being attacked mercilessly without any heed to the RoE, but even that would have a time limit on it (system X will be guarded for a period of 5 months while you regroup and other races have a chance to retalliate on your behalf, or something like that)

so a powerfull race or a powerfull alliance could basically stomp all over the rules of engagement if they were able to wait out the sanction periods, and avoided firing on judiciary ships. (which is cool, but also why 10 players would be good so that there would be enough players to discourage a couple people from abusing the others)

Basically the only way to get the Judiciary race to act is to 1-have them there observing (which they should be doing in most systems anyhow) and 2-file a report when something goes against the rules.

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