m4gill4 Wrote:I strongly agree with this statement. That's what I came to watch this thread for, I wanted to see all those RB masters whom I've been lurking for years fight it out for all they were worth, RB style!
Someday it would be great to see a RB Veterans only game with read-only player threads and a public lurker thread. I'm a big fan of the writeup pages of lots of players here, it would be rad to see them all pitted against one another!
Although Whosit is currently the guilty party of "cheese moves", I would say that most if not all teams in this game have shown they are willing to leverage quirks of the rules as much as possible in achieving their own objectives. Jowy's own gifting of cities, Kathlete pillaging India's out of border improvements during a NAP, Spullla micromanaging their log-in times to ensure turn order, etc, etc.
IMO, the players have shown time and again through their actions alone that if it's not explicitly against the rules, it's fair game. And when a team complains, it's not that a move is cheesy per se, but that the cheesy move hurt them. I do not believe Spullla would be complaining if Rome had smashed Korea in the current war and Korea gifted India a city or two. Instead, they'd be saying how it's a little cheesy, but those are the rules that apply to everyone and it just worked out nicely for them!