Team Strategy

[Viajero]

Originally Posted by Dragar

It is all situational, the most important thing is strong and coherent communication, and making sure your inbox always has room for new messages!

Also be careful not to hold too much back, if someone sticks their neck out in a war and their allies protect themselves, things can fall apart pretty quickly. Commit to the cause and make sure you are being proactively useful to your allies.

Totally agree. More easily said than done though. In essence any good diplomacy game, as is the case with D3, has at its heart the "Prisonners Dilemma" when it comes to Team Play and establishing alliances.

The Prisoner´s Dilemma is well taught in Game Theory (and I am not talking about tic tac toe) for commercial, political, diplomatic and also military environments where behaviour of other "players" matters.

In essence the dilemma establishes that in a one off game, played only once, the most productive course of action would be betraying your ally to take advantage of his/her trust. In the other hand, in a repeated game where your partners can see how you behave and can also impart punishment at the next opportunity available (i.e. future turns, or even future games as they know each other patterns) then the most productive course of action tends to be cooperation.

Having said that D3 is a game where at the end there can be only one, so Game Theory can not apply strictly, but you probably know what I mean by now...