The perfect PBW game?

[Gryphin]

What about imposing parts of the Gryphin Convention such as:
No Weapons of Mass Destruction
No Deliherate Glassing of Planets
No Treaties
No Trades
No Mines
No Intel
Slyky, what do you think of the limits?

No Shoes, No Shirts, No Problem, (sorry, wrong thread)

[geoschmo]

No mines or intel? Not sure about those personally, but I can see whay some would like that.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
What about imposing parts of the Gryphin Convention such as:
No Weapons of Mass Destruction
No Deliherate Glassing of Planets
No Treaties
No Trades
No Mines
No Intel
Slyky, what do you think of the limits?

No Shoes, No Shirts, No Problem, (sorry, wrong thread)

What would I say about it? What I've said in the Crystal Gail thread...ouch, ouch, OUCH!

[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Maybe I'll just see if I can interest my next Koth opponent in this. Would make killing each other pretty interesting if we had to go through AI players to do it I think.

Offhand, I'd say that would be a bad idea. There is already an element of luck that skews games as is (systems, nebulas, breathables, etc.) without introducing another possible luck factor: ("Well, that sucked, the AI was right beside me but the AI in your area was 3 systems away") or, ("My AI attacked me right away while yours waited 10 turns to declare war"!). Etc.

Again, just an offhand thought.

[Gryphin]

You could use only one the sam AI for all of the AI players.

[Phoenix-D]

Or turn on Team Mode..

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
You could use only one the sam AI for all of the AI players.

But there is still a matter of proximity and inter-reaction. After all, I think it's a dice roll, for example, for them to declare war on you and attack. Of course, the madder they get at you, the more likely that will happen, but imagine one KOTH player meeting the AI and it attacks next turn and the other KOTH player gets lucky for 5 or more turns?