| Re: pregame alliances? |
Wed, 12 March 2003 03:03   |
|
 Robert |
 | Lt. Junior Grade |
Messages: 393
Registered: November 2002
Location: Dortmund, Germany | |
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You are right... it was not forbidden...
Two things:
1.) What is the difference between a pre-game alliance and a normal alliance?
2.) Is a pre-game alliance an advantage?
It is worth to discuss this...
my opinion to 1.)
Pre-game alliances can be different in a form that hab-values
can me chosen to match the gaps in the other one's habs.
That means habs are not chosen as efficiently as they could,
and if the allies end up far from each other it turns out
to be a disadvantage.
Pre-game alliances can chose the cheap tech fields so one
can research one field cheap which the other one has expensive.
That means one of them will always be behind in weapons-tech,
and if one of them is killed, the other player has a problem,
as his race has inefficient research settings.
More advantages of pre-game alliances are also gained by normal
early alliances: tech trade, combined scouting, combined attacks,
intersetteling...
So no powerful advantage in my opinion... Even more: you lose
the most important feature in Stars, when playing with your friends: meeting new people, diplomacy, and you miss the chance
to learn things from others...
Most of what i learned i got from new allies... if i had played
with my friends, i would not have learned as much as i did...
So the question is not: is it unfair?
the question is: is it honorable?
I think there is no major advantage (I know a bit about the
alliance you talk about, and i am allied with one of them.
If I had the feeling it was a major advantage, I would not
have done that!)...
And also I could start a discussion if it was honorable to play
a CA TT monster in a game full of newbies...
It is not forbidden, ok... but when I opened the game I forgot
to mention to forbid pre-game-alliances and CA TT monsters...
So it is VERY similar to the issue you rise...
And i think a CA TT is much more powerful than any
pre-game alliance i can see here... so what would you
say if here was a posting:
I heared there is a CA TT monster in the game?
If it is true I will do ANYTHING against it...
Just something to think about...
and just my 2cts
Robert, your ex-Host
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