sunrise089 Wrote:Once again the consensus is clear, but I totally disagree. Firaxis designed things so that a dead team doesn't get kicked to the main menu, but rather still has access to all kinds of info. I think it's very questionable to say that they didn't foresee this situation when they specifically allow certain things (using the in-game chat feature, viewing past combat results) in-game.
My view is that the Byzantine team still has access to all of the info we acquired in game. However we shouldn't share it with any team based on anything they post in their forums, because we're spoilered on the question side of things, not on the information side. So, since we would never know Sullla or whoever wanted X piece of info, he wouldn't otherwise get the answer unless we were reading his thread and hence it's a spoiler. Therefore my own belief is that if a team were to email us unprompted and ask us a question as team Byzantium we could then respond with our in-game knowledge.
hmmm wasn't aware your email account was part of civ 4
Sorry but I don't buy the excuse that 'oh the developer didn't specifically put up fences to prevent it so they must have meant for it to be used' excuse. If you want to follow that line then why not play 'guess the admin password' and use commands and cheats to win because it's in the game so it's meant to be used however you see fit. Plus there are plenty of legit reasons for those features to be there beyond sharing information after you're eliminated.