The politics of losing

[Corvus]

The multiplayer game I ran also had this issue, turn 11X, 3 players left. One looked like he was gonna win, got into a grueling fight with me, 3rd guy got bigger and bigger and was about to hop in and crush second guy, I could either turn on 3 with 2, and go back and forth and back and forth, since we were all just throwing around endgame stuff in a stalemating circle, or I could just do nothing, which I would probably have if We hadn't decided to end it by consent, I mean theoretically any of us could have won but it could have taken another couple hundred turns. If you have the energy to stick out a back and forth stalemate, switching sides until you get a chance to strike, more power to ya, but once everybody gets into the super-end game and multiple people have fought each other and survived mostly intact, you have a problem. Because it might take a really god drat long time to decide a winner. It probably didn't help that 2 of the three were blood nations making use of vampires.