Oh, Perfidious Albion

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Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

I would not trust my real life friends if they did not betray me while playing dominions with me

I think this is the true 'spirit' of this game! I only play MP with my friends, guys who I would trust with my life in the 'real world'. But in Dominions, where "there can be only one", shifting alliances, backstabbing, betrayal, etc., are entirely par for the course, and definitely the spice of digital life!

In the game, the people I would otherwise in the real world trust completely, I trust not at all. The player who was my bosom ally in the last game, I expect may totally stab me in the back in the next, if it suits his purposes, and I allow it to happen. And I've happily allied with those who have betrayed me in previous games (as long as I'm allying from a position of strength, hold the whip hand, or have guarded against potential betrayal, etc.).

Every game is situational. Just remember, everyone wants to win, or at least spite those who are crushing them There is, and there should be, no corollary to 'real world' behavior.