New GOLD game of paranoia over at PBW

Askan Nightbringer · #1 March 21st, 2002, 04:40 AM

No permanent alliances?
No full co-operation?
Backstabbing?

I like it.

Askan

PS. What would be even more nasty would be no trades of anything at all. That way if one of the non-targets is about to die your gonna have to come with direct military aide, not hiding a moon somewhere in your vast expanse.

Richard · #2 March 21st, 2002, 06:30 AM

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Originally posted by Sinapus:

An old role-playing game called PARANOIA!

One of my Favorites.

I LOVE the Computer..

Arak Koba · #3 March 21st, 2002, 03:14 PM

If you don't know who your target empire is, and someone else inadvertantly destroys that empire for you, do you win anyhow?

dumbluck · #4 March 21st, 2002, 03:58 PM

Personally, I think the victory conditions should be the first empire to be destroyed by it's designated "hunter" empire, not just the first empire to die. Too bad I don't have time to put another game on my schedule, this sounds like fun!

T.A.G. anyone?

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[ 21 March 2002: Message edited by: dumbluck ]

Suicide Junkie · #5 March 21st, 2002, 04:16 PM

You would have to add a rule saying that if you killed off a race that was NOT your target, you die, and the player hunting you wins.

Otherwise, if someone else kills off your prey, there is no way for you to win anymore.

Bman · #6 March 21st, 2002, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by Arak Koba:
If you don't know who your target empire is, and someone else inadvertantly destroys that empire for you, do you win anyhow?

Each player will know their target. What is up for discussion is whether all the *other* players will know everyone else's targets so everyone knows who is after whom. Right now the voting in the game forum is leaning towards keeping this information private.

My thinking was that the game is over once the first empire dies. If someone else kills your target then you win. If you kill your target then you win. The moral of this is do not go around killing all the other empires that stand between you and your target or you will inadvertantly give someone else the win.

Bman · #7 March 21st, 2002, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by dumbluck:
Personally, I think the victory conditions should be the first empire to be destroyed by it's designated "hunter" empire, not just the first empire to die. Too bad I don't have time to put another game on my schedule, this sounds like fun!

The problem with this scenario of course is that it degenerates into a normal game: There is no penalty for you killing off non-targets. In fact, the more non-targets you kill, the better your chances of winning.

And also as you assign the targets from the dead empires, you end up with the very likely scenario of someone eventually ending up with themselves as their target. What then?