do you gxet to pick up Civil disordered countries for cheap (or an amount of the pot depending on the number of SCs - but still discounted...

and do they count toward my Ghostrating?

in fact how can you accurately assign a Ghostrating to people who picked up a game, the odds change based on the player... hmm.

Yeh, I remember talking to him about this some time ago. Can't remember what we concluded, but I don't think the system 'knows' at the moment.

It does get included because I've no way of finding out if somebody took over a CD. I hope to fix it at some point.

Stukus: there's no incentive for anyone to sign up for a game when they're guaranteed to lose.

Other than the Ghost rating thing, how is this idea any different from making CD's essentially free, except now mods have to deal with people who have two accounts?

This has been brought up before.

This thread has come up so much that I would be rich if I had a penny for every time I heard someone say they would be rich if they had a penny for every time this thread came up.

Well maybe we should implement an AI to play those games...unless the AI cheats.

Haha, that would be awesome - a cheating AI :P

a multi account AI :)

that plays both Austria & Italy?

1. Make CD's free when the number of centers is at or less than the starting number of centers for the country.

2. Store in the DB that you took over the position at X number of centers. Then Ghost could exclude those games, or adjust based on where you started.

Then it would be fun to pick up some of those losing positions. Or something like that.

1. Why? they're scaled down as it is. The best anti-CD proposal I heard was to allow the players in-game to set the cost. Personally I think a no-CD option should be added, when as soon as a player goes CD the game is paused. As an option, not as standard, but it should be there.

2. Requiring more work from both Kestas & Ghost, and increasing the database further.

OK, let me be more concrete:

Is there any rule that prohibits me from creating an account and posting the password in the forum?

Yes. This got mentioned when we were discussing black press games. Having two accounts is having two accounts.

Figle, I'm not requiring anything. I'm just making suggestions based on the perceived issue. And my suggestions both seem fairly simple to implement, although I'll grant I don't know the framework so could well be wrong. And one more byte per player per game, does increase the database further, is that really all that much? If it is zero, then you started the game. If it is non-zero, then that's the number of centers you bought in for.

For the record, I have bought in on a couple of 1-2 sc positions, hoping to play the big guys off each other, but in the end getting no where. It was fun and I'd do it again if it didn't count against me.

I know Ald, sorry, I was merely looking at the situation more clinically