(August 11th, 2015, 16:14)Krill Wrote: Yet the lurkers didn't think so, and you know just how much we rely on lurkers to police actions that may be questionable. It's how these games work because we aren't able to have full time referees/admins, and it's not like when we have had admins that's worked any better.
I wonder if lurkers even remember the rule at that time. I haven't read the thread closely yet, but I don't see anyone reminding about the communication rule. I don't think that breaking all the possible rules as long as lurkers don't correct them is the correct policy. I would have imagined that a game-deciding rule break would be important enough to be corrected also afterwards.
Quote:Gift and sale are different...
Demonizing Joey...
To the first paragraph: We both agree that gifting and selling were both technically allowed in this game when conducted without illegal diplo offers.
My point is that Joey knew that he is gifting a win. I guess we disagree here, but to me that is just really low.
Quote:Boldly tried to buy great people off Plako. He just wouldn't sell them. Can't be bad for one and not another. I'm in the camp that you lost fair and square, even if you did play such a brutal, efficient game.
Those trade offers weren't ok and if BGN would have won through something like that it would have been similarly lame. Luckily in this case plako remembered the rules / did not want to sell anything + 1 GP from plako would not have been as important as the discussed GA was.