In Anon game kingdoms that share a region: Is it always war?

[paway]

I think naming emissaries to convey messages to opponents is violating the spirit of the anonymous, no-communication compact that everyone has agreed to.

The goal of these games should not be to find a workaround for the lack of 341-349 orders and forum interaction. It should be to experience the game without communication.

[Lord Thanatos]

I think naming emissaries to convey messages to opponents is violating the spirit of the anonymous, no-communication compact that everyone has agreed to.

The goal of these games should not be to find a workaround for the lack of 341-349 orders and forum interaction. It should be to experience the game without communication.

This is true!

Preach it man . . .

[Cloud]

I have only played in one full Anonymous game, but it strikes me that every interaction between kingdoms is a form of communication. If I stumble across a PC you own in my controlled region, I am communicating with you whether I attack or I move away.

In the Anonymous game just completed, 136, I gained the first HC seat. The second went to BL who immediately supported my inf raise. I took this to mean - 'Hey, let's work together on the Council' and I reacted accordingly, voting Yea on several BL issues and vice versa. Very clearly communication of a sort, but I don't view this as breaking the spirit of Anonymous.

Likewise, I encountered another kingdom in the neighboring abandoned region and intentionally avoided attacking them there. That message was received and the other kingdom reciprocated, a detente that lasted the whole game.

I don't think 'communication' like this truly avoidable. I agree that naming an emmy 'Attack GI' and moving it to a neighbor's PC is inappropriate, but just about everything short of that is fair game.

Cloud

[VballMichael]

I am in an anon game with a shared region, and we simply both walked away if we landed at the other player's pop center and we raced to control the region but neither of us attacked the other or took a pop center from the other. Eventually, I got about 55% of the region and my region-sharer and I respect what is owned, not because we are working together but because us fighting over the region early on only benefits all of those who do not share a region. We "communicated" by not attacking or usurping in situations where we could have. I think sending an emissary with words is pretty similar to a 349 order so I would think that slightly crosses the line, but not preaching here, because that line is slippery and there are lots of ways to communicate more indirectly.
I actually do like Dusi's idea for psyching someone out. I did figure out who one opponent is by their playing style and I did freak him out with an email that said, hey don't forget the turns are due in the anon game tomorrow and you need to get your _____ kingdom turn sent in .
As an aside, I have played in maybe 8 games thus far, and none have I enjoyed as much as I like the anon game, mostly because there is no teaming up for or against a player (at least not intentionally and coordinated).