is feeding acceptable or not

[capnq]

Sombre said: No diplomacy games make sense to me. If you don't want to go that far, make a 'no giving items, gems or gold' game.

My experience with other multiplayer games makes me leery of any rules that don't have an in-game enforcement mechanism. Otherwise, you just get endless arguments between the people who voluntarily follow them and the ones who ignore them.

[Sombre]

Well the mechanism would be kicking people out who don't follow the rules. There's no automatic rules for non-computer games and not all of them need dedicated referees.

I think explicitly stating NO DIPLOMACY would probably work. If some people choose to 'cheat' well it wouldn't keep me up at night or anything, I'd just think they were lame.

[Agema]

I think it's fine.

If your kingdom is so knackered you can't get much out of it, you may as well just quit, and why not hand everything you can to your enemies' enemies? The going to AI could be roleplay rationalised as the God having given up and gone off in a sulk, leaving a semi-competent mortal to oversee the collapse of the nation.