That's good to know. Parkin should be back soon. Though we may need to wait for Plako to return as well... definitely can't have him away at the moment.
Sort of resurrecting something from earlier, but there's something important I feel I need to address before the game starts back up and crap gets real. When I made the double move right before declaring on Plako, I didn't mean to break any general pitboss rules. It was never mentioned when setting up the game or laying down the rules.
The double move fortunately didn't really effect that particular case, Plako conveniently parked his ships just in range of where the transports were preparing. (7 tiles away, with navigation/refrigeration transports) But in other possible war opening gambits, it could have. (At one point Plako had a loooooot of ships parked in his shrine
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As far as "common sense" goes, it seemed like a logical tactic for either side to use to me. I didn't recall it having been explicitly banned in the rules of the other pitboss games I had played and used for reference, those being the MTDG and Daniapetu. And I had two different allies tell me separately that not only was it okay, but that it happens in pitboss games all the time! So I was pretty surprised to see that after using it that not only was it frowned upon, but it was grounds for a reload.
So basically, please help make sure that doesn't happen again. Not all of us have the experience of Parkin or the ability to pull up rulebooks from unrelated games like Elkad.
Just please double check the Saturn rules
here and see if there's any commonly-known rules I missed that may be an issue later. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
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