Strat Forum PBEM: Game 4

[alexman]

Damnyankees to damnzulu.
Better?

[Dominae]

DAMNZULU!!?? Hey, I kinda like that...

Sent to Sir Ralph.

[alexman]

Hey Shaka, you have game 3, you know...

[Dominae]

Really? Uh-oh...Sorry about that.

[Harovan]

Sent to jshelr of Egypt

[jshelr]

Sent

[alexman]

2750 to Dominae

[jshelr]

Hear Yea, Hear Yea

The following petition has come before the court of PBEM fairness and rules enforcement

The facts: Civ A has horses. Civ B has iron. Civ C is attacking the weak and defenseless Civs A and B.

Civ C charges that Civ A is selling zero extra horses to Civ B and then pillaging roads to get the horses back in less that 20 turns. Civ B, in turn, is sellling zero extra iron to civ A and using pillaging to cut the deal short. That way, both are building a stead stream of knights.

Is this behavior reprehensible, nefarious, clever, admirable, actionable?

I await your learned opinions.

[alexman]

I would have no problem with that. I would have a problem if done against the AI, who doesn't know to do the same thing, but against other humans, I think it's fine.

If they go to the trouble of pillaging and roading every time they want to start building a new knight, so be it. It's not like it's unrealistic or anything, either.

[Dominae]

Yep, sounds fine.

Sent to Sir Ralph.

[jshelr]

Thanks

The poor horse is going to get kinda tired running back and forth.

[Harovan]

Turn sent

[jshelr]

sent

[alexman]

To Shaka.

[Dominae]

Moving along...