Re: [eia] losing players

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 07:35 AM 7/23/2005, you wrote:
> > 2)  If a MP that loses a player is in the political crapper, maybe whoever
> > inherits that MP can be given the _minimum_ VPs required to give them a
> > chance to win.  I'm not sure exactly how this would be calculated, but I'm
> > sure some of the math gurus in the group may have thoughts on this.
> > :)
> >
> > Hopefully this will be a springboard for a solution.
> >
>
>     This isn't a bad idea.  If we need to recruit someone to fill a vacant
> position, we can give them either the country's current VP total OR the VPs
> that they would have at that point in the game if they were on track to
> victory.  So even if they would have an uphill climb ahead of them, that
> still gives them a chance at victory.
>     Of course, this is still pending Joel's reasoning as to how changing one
> country's victory conditions to help a new player would disadvantage other
> countries.  (Let me point out again that this game is not designed to have
> one winner, as many people have seemed to assume over the last couple
> weeks.)
>
> kdh
We're not assuming there can be only one winner in every game.  We're 
stating that if you do the math, there WILL be only one winner in THIS game.

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