That happens frequently and is called establishing a meta. For example, generally players in this website take writing support hold another player's units to mean asking for an alliance. Maybe we should ban all the players who use this, clearly, it's an outside game influence of gunboat mechanics.CSteinhardt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:15 pmOK. So, what you're saying is that the real problem would be that this group of people would have a common prior understanding and be able to communicate using draw votes in future games. Sounds reasonable.jasnah wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:04 pmYou are incorrectly identifying what is problematic about your example; it's not the use of the draw vote but the intentional and prior arrangement of several players outside of game to collaborate. It would be equally problematic were you to make this agreement with several others that a particular fake convoy pattern through enemy fleets signals you should work together, that doesn't mean convoying through enemy fleets should be banned. If you cared about making a coherent post instead of just writing lazy fallacies you assume people are too stupid to see, you would have thought of this.
So, if, for example, somebody decided to start a forum discussion which would encourage regular gunboat players on this website to come to agreements about what a draw vote should "mean", in your view that would be an attempt to cheat, correct? How would you recommend punishing participants in such a discussion?
In normal circumstances I would agree to disagree but you somehow manage to write in a miserable and pedantic way filling up several paragraphs despite having little to no substance to your argument.