Re: [eia] general thoughts

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> 1.)  Regarding the example of GB wanting to play for the defeat of France:
> Personally, I was playing Britain to win the game myself, and I didn't really 
> care about making sure France lost the _game_.  Sure, I was trying to defeat 
> France and win the _war_, but that was because France was already my enemy, a
> nd the conditions for making peace were so strict.  I didn't see it as one of my
> goals that the France's player would lose.  I'm not arguing for or against 
> changing the victory conditions for a country that loses its player, just that
> this example does not apply.

Perhaps I should have been clearer in my example: I'm not talking about 
this game per se. What I was objecting to is introducing the possibility 
that defeating another major so badly that its player quits could, make 
that major more powerful.

-- 
J.


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