RE: [eia] losing players

["James Helle" <jhelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that JJ could easily reach his victory conditions long before anyone
else.  So far hear are the "votes" as I see them:

In favor of restarting are Joel, Mike, and (reluctantly?) Kyle.  I am not
dead set on it, but will cast my vote to restart.

I would imagine JJ would prefer to continue, I am not sure about Sterling.

it seems to me that we have a majority.  Would everyone else agree?  As much
as I'm enjoying the discussion if we're going to start over I'd like to get
cracking.  Is an escrow for bids in order?

-----Original Message-----
From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Michael Gorman
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:52 AM
To: public list for an Empires in Arms game
Subject: Re: [eia] losing players


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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