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Truce Etiquette Question
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Roll 'em wrote
at 8:21 AM, Tuesday June 19, 2007 EDT
Question on truce etiquette (sorry if this is a worn-out topic).
In a recent game, with three players left, I was #2 player (red) and truced with #3 (blue) to take on the #1 (yellow). The truce worked and red & blue pushed yellow to #3 position, and yellow eventually flagged with about 8 territories. Red and blue were about equal and continued to attack flagged yellow. Yellow got angry, but I thought it was correct to honor the truce until yellow was gone, or both agree to untruce. Is this correct truce etiquette? Honor truce over flags? And is there a "correct" time for the trucers to shift to battling it out themselves? |
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HBergeron wrote
at 8:29 AM, Tuesday June 19, 2007 EDT To be clear, flags ARE truces, they are an agreement by a weaker player to no attack the largest player - particularly as most folks play flags where they continue to jockey for position with everyone else.
Now, in this specific case, drawing on the law of kdice before the flags started being treated as some kind of magic talisman - Once a 2-3 truce pushes #1 to 3rd it has generally been considered good practice to end the game - your truce accomplished it's purpose. Only if your truce agreement was to knock everyone else out so that the two of you could fight for first would it be reasonable to keep attacking the now 3rd place player. What you did was dom fuck the former first place, and while all is fair in love and war, it was "poor play" and both this player, and other kdicer's who observe the basic standards of play, would be right in taking it out on you in future games. Dom fucking is allowed (ie, there are no rules in kdice) but it is not exactly to be admired. |
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LAG monster wrote
at 12:01 PM, Tuesday June 19, 2007 EDT the flags should just go. I say if you truce with another player your goal is to get 1st and 2nd, no matter what you say. Which means you kill all other players, they know it and can counter or cry.
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