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Re: SS ultimate strategy?

Mon, 20 April 2009 05:57

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vonKreedon wrote on Mon, 20 April 2009 00:33

As a player I assume that all the other players are playing to win; that they will do what it takes, within the agreed rules, to win. I'm counting on that and when players do not play to win due to chivalrous concepts of honor and fair play beyond the stated rules it screws with my gameplay and annoys me mightly.

Do you say that there are game rules and those should be followed? But rules which you have agreed to bilateral or multilateral within the game can be handled differently and thus broken for a backstab?

Kind of a weird logic... kind of a backstabber's logic who even tries to give his deeds a cover of legality *grin*

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If you are playing to win and your sober and ruthless analysis of the situation is that the only chance for you to win is to backstab your ally and you have the realistic potential to pull off a backstab that will win the game for you, the ethic of playing to win obligates you, IMO, to perform the backstab.

Hey hey, and now you even add a cover of legitimacy, no even more: ethics force you to backstab.

What a scam! What about the thought that within the rules you have agreed to you have lost, the other won? If you had been smart enough, you'd made another treaty or properly cancelled it early enough...
If you don't follow a treaty we have agreed upon because "to win obligates you to perform a backstab", what should made me think and trust that you follow other rules, that you don't try to use every known bug and cheat... when winning is, it seems, so overly important for you?

As much as I like to win, I am playing (o wonder) for fun. And sometimes (like now) because I feel obliged to the other players.

Playing only to win has destroyed lots of games,
doing whatever mean and exploiting deeds for profit,
the end justifies the means...
I am so fed up with this philosophy and it's usurping every bloody damned feeble space in life.

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