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Slynky said:
If you read and agree to something and sign it, the law doesn't care if you forgot. Your just WRONG. Simple as that. So, I don't care if he forgot or did it on purpose. He made a mistake that affected the game. Tell the cop you forgot what the speed limit was.
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Very true. If it were something other then mines, something that couldn't be disallowed by setting and was simply a case of a pure gentlemans agreement from the start that he forgot about, I wuold be totally in agreement with you. But I can't get past the fact that two things happened that he had absolutly no control over, the setting wasn't turned off by the game owner, and you didn't bring it up as soon as you noticed it.
You can put on my tombstone "Never assume a gentleman's agreement". That's the only inviolable law of PBW game settings in my book. I keep bringing up the possibility of him simply forgetting that you agreed to no mines, but a reasonable argument could be made that once the game owner forgot to disable them that item went out the window, unless you guys brought it to each others attention after the fact and made a gentlemans agreement. He could have researched construction to get fighters or troops, saw as you did that mines were there and not wanted to bring it up for the same reason you didn't, to avoid giving away information abot uhis research and strategies. So then the only difference is that you assumed that since mines were enabled your game defaulted to a gentlmans agreement not to use mines and he assumed that since mines were enabled your game defaulted to using mines. In that case you both made reasonable, but conflicting assumptions.
I know you would probably say to this, "But he agreed not to use mines." but actually he didn't. What he agreed to do was play a game in which mines were not enabled. He didn't agree to a gentlmans agreement not to use them. When it became clear that mines were in the game but you didn't bring up the point, he could have easily assumed that meant you knew about it and were planning on using them too.
I see your perspective and I don't discount it Slynky. I merely see it from a slightly different angle. That's why I am simply saying that restarting seems the most fair in my opinion. Restarting damages you both in that you lose current progress, and you have to adjust your strategy to regain the element of suprise. But to the extent that it damages you both, it does so equally. And it's the only solution that doesn't cause unrecoverable damage to either of you.