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Im curious what vexer thinks (not referring to team games)

I will have to think more before giving a proper reply.

This. I think random teams should also be an option. It will possibly be less popular, but the option should remain. It often occurs I play games with complete strangers, then the random teams should be an option. I am a bit concerned though about balance in games. If the two strongest players in a game team up, it is no fun at all for other players. Random distribution could also be replaced by a method that tries to make teams as fair as possible, depending on ranks or something.

I am very curious to what changes this discussion about the issues leads. Although I can live with it, there are certainly some annoyances and if we can find a way to get rid of them, the general experience would probably be a lot better.

Though, I want to stress the following: every community and every game has to deal with other people (newbies, trolls, ...) that can make the experience less fun. Truth is: the internet is full of it so it is okay to try and have them have less impact on the game, but they will never be fully gone.

Paddin, I have an idea to use just in some Capital games to avoid these desperate movements.

In these hypothetic kind of games we would have 2 ways of winning and 2 kind of losers (some would lose points, some others don´t). It´s easier to explain it with an example.

Imagine we are in a 9 players capital game. The 2 ways of winning are:
1) Be the last player alive. You get the points as it´s done now.
2) Conquer 4 (for example) capitals and you would recive only the points according to the eliminated players. You should have the option of claiming the victory, because you may want to try a complete victory. In case you don´t clame the victory in the turn you had the opportunity of doing it, you won´t have it again and you will need a complete Victory.

Of course there are some other criteria to the second victory option (% of territories, hold a number of continents, etc), the only important thing is that some players will have the option to "offer the leader" a way of getting the victory without being eliminated (and keeping their points). Actually, whit this 2 ways of victory we would be creating the scenario to a negotiation, and one of the most probable behaviours of the players willing "negotiate" would be an exagerated acumulation of troops in their capitals (yes, I think even more than now).

I guess I wouldn´t play this games (I think "desperate movementes" are in the essence of this game and you have to deal with it) but I think this option can be chosen for players who wants to face only rational reactions.

This is a great set of ideas. I hadn't thought of it in terms of accumulating property or defeating capitals. That expands the way points could be considered and divided up in multiple game types. Nice.