If you are talking about a second place person taking on first place 1v1, then you are wrong. The points changed are so miniscule that if a person is actually 'a fighter', then they would fight it out anyway just to fight it out.

thanks mozzer, didn't you say the same thing the last time the scoring changed?

no Ryan, i did not

sounds very familiar

think what you do want to think - but to be honest, i'm not a regular user of your forum, so it would be quiet strange if you were right

nevertheless, still a great game

don't you think you encourage those who give up quickly ... after those few games i can't think otherwise

it's a pity, no ????

if you are not strong and does not flag, you lose every turn plusminus one point - so one should flag
at the end, this site will end as a chatbox

You are correct mozzer, fighting is almost always a mistake.

Imagine a scenario where there are three players (12 territories, 9 territories, 6 territories):

If you are second, and you challenge the leader... then you risk losing placement to third place. You pretty much guarantee points if you can get third place to flag. And even if you do ally with third to overtake the leader, there's no guarantee you will finish in first over your ally. You should attack third place.

If you are in third place, you will bleed away points every round, so even if you team up with #2 and manage to overtake the leader, you will have lost so many points that you still finish negative.

If you are in first place, you just want the game to go on forever, so you attack nobody. as long as the other two are fighting, then you get more points.

So basically, in every scenario the best thing for you to do is NOT FIGHT. Just attack the smallest guy and hope he flags early.

The scoring has little to do with how much land you have, what place you finish, it just rewards you for flagging at the right time.

Basically get a lucky start and hope nobody flags. Otherwise flag out as soon as you can't grow anymore.

Competition is not rewarded in the new system.

i hate the new game i like to fight also this sucks bring back the old way