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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Suggestions, improvement, critics
Subject:Re: Clarification
Posted by: TXWard - 15years 82days ago.
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GraysGhost wrote:
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.

Kit

Kit,

It would be considerate of you to understand what a clarification is. From your latest post, it seems you understand the rules but disagree with them. Your original post asks for a clarification of a result that you don't understand. There is a big difference.

By posting it as a clarification, it paints yourself as rather obtuse being unable to comprehend the honor/without honor rules regardless of the number of times it has been explained to you in detail. If you instead were forthcoming about your agenda - getting rules changed to your liking - it would have instead shown you to be less dense and more stubborn instead. It also would have saved the time of those of us who like to try and help new players who are having difficulties with the rules by realizing that such an effort was not needed here.

To state it is "a form of cheating" to follow the rules is just ludicrous. Your initial example of this thread is a weak example of using a "loophole" to their own advantage. Matter of fact, terming it a "loophole" is an opinion of yours (that may be shared by others as well) so charging players with cheating in such a way is a fine example of poor sportsmanship on your part.

You will likely gain more followers to your crusade by being honest about it rather than by confusing the issue as you have here. Stick to the, "I don't like it and here's why" line rather than the, "Is this really how it is supposed to be or is it a bug" straw men you tend to lean upon.

-Steve

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