GraysGhost wrote:
In this game:
Here is where my logic took me and why I asked the question:
You have a 4 v 4 game.
Side A has one plane shot down and two retire with Honour. The fourth team member shoots down three of the opposition and thus has a massive points total.
That player now has his engine shot off and leaves the board from the nearest edge – without honour.
Honour matters because retiring with honour means that you are counted as still being on the playing area.
The player who left without honour wins a Strategic Victory and gets a lot of points as under the league victory conditions he has the most points (even if halved) and his side have more planes on the playing area (two with honour retirees).
His opponent who remains on the playing area does not benefit from having shot off the engine and if he is lucky gets two points, probably only one.
Therefore leaving the playing area without honour in large multi-player games may have a direct bearing on the result.
If in the above scenario the player leaving without honour is adjudicated as having zero points then the result is completely different with it being classed as a probable draw.
Therefore with a differentiation between honour being whether a plane is classed as on the playing area at the end of the game or not, how pilots who leave without honour are dealt with matters.
Does my initial request for clarification now make sense and am I misunderstanding something?
TXWard wrote:
Obviously, you must still be misunderstanding something because nowhere is there an indication that a player leaving without honor gets zero points, whether game points (which may impact the League results of the game) or league points (which won't impact the League results of the game).
That is why I asked where you were getting that impression from because it is unfounded based on any of the rules I've read here.
It isn't written, but I'm saying that it should be or that there should be a stiff penalty to prevent people from flying off the side of a game to force a draw or win for leagues.
It is a form of cheating - owing to the fact that the programmers cannot move the playing area as you would for the board game on which our rules are based.
If Mr Hall had written his rules with the expectation that players could fly off the edge of the map then I believe, given his adjudication on honour, that there would have been penalties in the rules.
An omission from the rules doesn't mean that doing something is right, it just means that the game designer didn't think that people would play like that so didn't write a rule stating whether it was acceptable or not.
So what I am asking for is a penalty to prevent people from using a loophole in the rules to their own advantage.
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