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Old March 21st, 2002, 04:36 PM

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

I like it.


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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.



That's a good idea. I haven't made a game in a while. I do not remember if there is an option to turn off ALL TRADING. Or at least trading of planets.

It might require the honor system to enforce.

In any case I will put it to the vote in the game forum whether people want to disallow gifting/trading of planets.
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An old role-playing game called PARANOIA!



Yes, I've heard of the game of course, since that is where I came up with the name for this game. But I've never played it. So I don't know anything about its setting. Somehow I doubt it had Meson BLasters in it though...
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What's going to determine when an empire is knocked out? Do they have to have a populated colony somewhere?

In the Universe Cup discussion, it was brought up that the game may consider an empire still to exist, even if all it has is a mine hiding somewhere...



Hmmm...I naively thought an empire was marked dead when their ships and planets were destroyed. I suppose we better call it over the turn an empire owns no more colonies so it does not turn into a frustrating hunt for the Last mine. Of course, there is no way to determine this when we cannot see each others scores...Any ideas?

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Edit: Oh, and are planet gifts going to be allowed, so if race Z is about to bite it, other players can donate more planets to them?




I put it to the vote in the game forum...

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I doubt anyone would try to pull a cheesy stunt like saying they were still in the game, even though all they had was some mines and sats laying around. But if you suspect it you can always have someone check it for you.

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I just wanted to know what the rule would be for this game. I don't think anyone will lie about having been wiped out, but the definition of being dead could be many different things, especially if trading of planets (or even colony ships with population) is allowed.

It could be any combination of:

You must have population under your control.
You must have population of your original type under your control.
You must have a ship under your control.
You must have a (populated?) colony under your control.

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This game has been quite fun and interesting.

However we have had a couple of players who were moving and so on and needed to drop out, even though they still have strong positions (I think).

So, we need a couple of replacement players to take over the two uncontrolled empires.

See the game "Paranoia!!! (Gold)" on PBW.

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