Scorched earth

[BigandScary]

But do they try to take out the knee of the other team's top player so the team that beats them loses in the end?

[OmikronWarrior]

BigandScary said:
But do they try to take out the knee of the other team's top player so the team that beats them loses in the end?

You mean horror mark the SC pretender whose leading the charge? Uh, yeah, of course you do that.

[PyroStock]

Baalz said:
I see it as bad sportsmanship to try to sabotage the guy I lost to so he subsequently loses.

He's sabotaging his own provinces, labs and castles. I don't see much difference between this and the guy who "sabotages" you to lose by fighting you to the bitter end.

Overly offensive posts, hacking turn files, taking down the server when the host is eliminated, and secretly playing more than one nation are all completely intolerable

...because those are all situations where the player isn't following the rules and/or attempt to do harm via means outside context of the game. The scorched earth tactic is within the context of the game. I never posted in the Dark Knight thread because others there all covered my points. A clever quote from that thread that holds true here too...

I don't have a lot of patience for trying to figure out what "acceptable" tactics are - if I can do it within the context of the game then it's fair play.