Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners

From: bonar@math.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3tu0ls$ru5@kodak.rdcs.Kodak.COM> dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung) writes:

>      [ ... ]           You should earn a victory, not get it by default.
> The player Kevin was complaining about was not "playing to achieve the
> victory conditions" as you said, but rather sitting still, paying $6.50
> per turn, and building up his troop count without loosing any while others
> defeated the enemy, loosing troops in the process, with the end result
> that this guys opposing team was gone AND he had more troops than his
> "allies" thus giving him more victory points.
>
>          - Dennis

It still sounds to me like the neutral country picked a
strategy, stuck to it, and in the end won the game. You simply sound
sore because you don't like his strategy.

If you wish to argue that what he did was against the 'spirit'
of the game, perhaps you should think of what the citizens of his
country might feel.  They stayed out of a war, built up a great
economy, gain a potentially dominant political position in the area
and don't have to worry about menace from the dark side either.
To me that sounds like exactly what they would want - especially
considering that the country was a neutral to begin with.

One posting in this thread implied that a neutral contry
can join either the good or evil side without their having any
say in the matter.  If that is the case, that looks like a problem
in the rules.  (And incidentally, fixing it would 'fix' the play
you don't like too.)  But why don't you consider sitting and building
forces if no-one is attacking a valid strategy?  Would you think
more highly of it if it was done by one of the free people?  Soeone
on the dark side?

Doug

References

Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung)
Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: ME-PBM Late Joiners
dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung)
Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000