Re: The politics of losing
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Originally Posted by Bananadine
An important point: When you start playing, you've probably mostly already lost the big war that is the focus of your game, just by joining it--because you probably have more than one opponent, so your chance of winning, if everybody has the same skill and starting nation strength, is 1/3 or less.
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Some good points.
Altho I feel like mentioning that a specifically "New Players" game can work around the early gang-up thing by choice of map. One of the Arena maps, or a Maze map, or one of the Towers make pretty good choices for newbie games.
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