And how exactly will you determine if a player missed his or her turn on purpose or because they really did miss their turn?
Do you have a cam in their home recording their every move?
Some players have a life, i'm not one of them because I've never missed a turn (must be a record I think).
It's the same problem as suiciding, a clever player will suicide in such a way that you can not prove they suicided.
What if you have 3 players left and each has 500+ armies.
If 1 player uses 350 of his or hers armies to attack 1 of the other players, the 1 player that was not attacked is almost garanteed to win.
But you would not call that a suicide, the really vindictive suicidebunnies are usually stupid enough to make it really obvious that they commited suicide.
They use all their availlable armies until they only have territories with 1 army on them.
The smart players commit suicide in such a way that they can and usually succesflully claim they made a tactical mistake.
Sorry to say it but as hard as you admins try there are players savy and cunning enough to slip through your nets.
The 5 card turn trick is another 1 of those occasions where you are powerless as admins.
The only thing that works against this is in the hands of the players themselves, when you've played a few times with players that use this trick you start to notice.
You then have 2 choices, alert other players ( this is rarely effective ) or decide if you want to play with this player and if you do, adapt your gameplan accordingly.
The other thing that works ( kind of ) on other sites ( sorry ) is player ratings where you can label players performance and gameplay.
If you are abackstabber, trucebreaker, suicidebunny or generaly crappy opponent your averange rating reveals this quite accurately after a while ( in the beginning the rating of 1 or 2 unreasonalbe players can skew your rating but after a while the averages even out and you can easily pick out the trolls and other a-holes).
And how exactly will you determine if a player missed his or her turn on purpose or because they really did miss their turn?
Do you have a cam in their home recording their every move?
Some players have a life, i'm not one of them because I've never missed a turn (must be a record I think).
It's the same problem as suiciding, a clever player will suicide in such a way that you can not prove they suicided.
What if you have 3 players left and each has 500+ armies.
If 1 player uses 350 of his or hers armies to attack 1 of the other players, the 1 player that was not attacked is almost garanteed to win.
But you would not call that a suicide, the really vindictive suicidebunnies are usually stupid enough to make it really obvious that they commited suicide.
They use all their availlable armies until they only have territories with 1 army on them.
The smart players commit suicide in such a way that they can and usually succesflully claim they made a tactical mistake.
Sorry to say it but as hard as you admins try there are players savy and cunning enough to slip through your nets.
The 5 card turn trick is another 1 of those occasions where you are powerless as admins.
The only thing that works against this is in the hands of the players themselves, when you've played a few times with players that use this trick you start to notice.
You then have 2 choices, alert other players ( this is rarely effective ) or decide if you want to play with this player and if you do, adapt your gameplan accordingly.
The other thing that works ( kind of ) on other sites ( sorry ) is player ratings where you can label players performance and gameplay.
If you are abackstabber, trucebreaker, suicidebunny or generaly crappy opponent your averange rating reveals this quite accurately after a while ( in the beginning the rating of 1 or 2 unreasonalbe players can skew your rating but after a while the averages even out and you can easily pick out the trolls and other a-holes).
