(written by Commander Koski)
I think we all have played many kinds of war and strategy games. In all of them you try to position your units in a beneficial manner, to hold the high ground, so you have better odds to defeat your opponents.
By “strategic diplomacy” I mean the planned effort to position yourself in your game with Continue reading
There are eleven players and one winner (maybe two). Mathematically speaking, this means that sometimes you’re just plain gonna lose, no matter how good or skilled or lucky you happen to be. Sometimes you die; sometimes you survive; sometimes… you change sides. This is technically called “Becoming a Vassal”, though your former teammates may refer to it in other less salubrious terms.
So here’s what happens: Someone has managed to get an overwhelming force next to your homeworld. Your navy is shattered; your escape is cut off. And your planets are Continue reading
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?” — Dale Carnegie, on his book “How To Win Friends and Influence People”
In Planets as in life, true and enduring success cannot belong to a person who fails at diplomacy. In the Echo Cluster, Continue reading
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