The tournament and a question of ethics - newbie question

[tbontob]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have no doubt it will be a battle of who can do the best job of making alliances and playing them off of one another. That's the whole point of the format. It's what I inteded to begin with. I am not sure if you are saying this is a bad thing or what?

Geoschmo

Actually I am not making any judgements as to whether it is a good/bad thing. I am just saying that the lone player is a sure loser and the members in a smaller alliance has a greater probability of losing.

Let's say you have an alliance with 10 members, an alliance with 7 members and 3 loners.

The two alliances will "tend" to look at the loners for a victory. Having fewer resources, research points and ultimately ships and technology, their weakness will invite attack.

Now we have two alliances. Having fewer resources, research points and ultimately ships and technology, the weaker alliance will "invite" an attack on one of its members(because it is weaker").