Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
I like the idea of at least giving the person credit for a 'submitted game', for those people who care about that.
I just checked, and if you retire, you get a loss, even if you have a histograph lead (at least in PTW). So there isn't really a scoring exploit, except for cases where you would do better by retiring instead of waiting for the AI to capture each of your cities one by one.
Even then, there are many situations that holding the AI off for awhile still adds on points, even if you are losing a city every few turns. This is because your empire is still bigger than it was during all that time in the very early game when you only had 1 city, or very few cities, so your 'average' score is still increasing (but not by as much).
It isn't until you see your score actually drop from one turn to the next, that retirement would be ideal.
Suicide would be too hard to detect and enforce.
How about retirements get the same score as the lowest scoring person (who did complete the game) got?
I am having an image of a 'spoiler', who ruins everyone's score by finishing a game with 0 points
The problem with that is a person who scored 2,000 points and retired would get the same score as someone who scored 200 points and retired. But at least they get their game counted as 'submitted', and you aren't hurting those people who do stick it out and try holding off the AI, even when they are down to 1 city.
I just checked, and if you retire, you get a loss, even if you have a histograph lead (at least in PTW). So there isn't really a scoring exploit, except for cases where you would do better by retiring instead of waiting for the AI to capture each of your cities one by one.
Even then, there are many situations that holding the AI off for awhile still adds on points, even if you are losing a city every few turns. This is because your empire is still bigger than it was during all that time in the very early game when you only had 1 city, or very few cities, so your 'average' score is still increasing (but not by as much).
It isn't until you see your score actually drop from one turn to the next, that retirement would be ideal.
Suicide would be too hard to detect and enforce.
How about retirements get the same score as the lowest scoring person (who did complete the game) got?
I am having an image of a 'spoiler', who ruins everyone's score by finishing a game with 0 points
The problem with that is a person who scored 2,000 points and retired would get the same score as someone who scored 200 points and retired. But at least they get their game counted as 'submitted', and you aren't hurting those people who do stick it out and try holding off the AI, even when they are down to 1 city.
