yeah that needs to be discussed, but I have had enough.. If I have to take the game down until we all work through the rules issues I will
Just reading over the last page - it looked like it was established in the game that unless you have an agreement for this war - DM is allowed, but not looked well upon (meaning - if you have a history of double moves someone can use it against you).
There seemed to be a number of statements similar to this one:
Just paying back is all. We also had no double move agreement for this war, and it is not stated as a game rule anywhere.
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From this page - it looks like both Lev and Neo have agreed to a non-dm war.
Sonny, myself, and failed - have not made a public or pm agreement to my knowledge. (He merely asked a question and I put a confusing starwars quote out there - which empire am i talking about - nobody has guessed right).
Now in a war where the Rules of War (RoW) have not been agreed on - seems to me that the first one to do it gets publically shamed (ex: first to use nukes, chemical, biological, double-movers, etc. - c how I slipped that in there? all equally abhorrent!!!) and will face some sort of punishment (either diplomatically or in future wars).
If Sonny wins the war - he will play the rest of the game as a potential DM'r and people will have to take that into acct when doing diplo with him. If he loses the war - he may be in a place where he is simply trying to do as much damage as possible before being wiped off the planet. Would you do the same in the same situation? Fight to the end - in any way possible?
I can definitely see where it is an advantage to people that are online all the time to DM, but unless there is an agreement - why not assume DM's might happen and move your units in a cautious manner (not sending out lone units assuming that someone won't try to pick it off with a DM)
If you make an agreement and someone breaks it - that might be able to be settled at wars end in extra damages in negotiations or something.