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Re: What do players think?

Thu, 03 February 2005 11:15

mazda

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Steve1 wrote on Thu, 03 February 2005 14:41

When I've been allied with the no. 2 race for a long, long time, and when we have have shared tech, ships, intercolonised for almost all of the game, then how can anyone expect my race to attack such a valuable ally.

They don't. They expect the no. 2 race to attack you.
It is totally in your interest to keep him as an ally.
OTOH what would you say he was now gaining from you ?

You see, it is the attitude of "Well, I can stay 2nd, and I'll still be on *the winning side*" that is the problem.
There is no winning side.

The no.2 in the game is effectively preventing the other players from winning the game, without trying to win it themselves.

People form alliances because they are a good means to win the game. However it has to be stated that it is just as likely that they do so because it offers comfort, cameradery and generally makes things easier throughout the game.

I find it hard to believe that people going in to an alliance are thinking so far down the road that they have the foresight to manage the alliance so that it turns out in their favour (i.e. attack from within rather than without).
I'd be happy to be proved wrong though.

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