I'm wondering what level of cooperation with another player is considered inappropriate or downright against the rules?
I've found a couple of threads related to this..
Here: http://forums.subterfuge-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1576&hilit=real+life&start=10
Here: http://forums.subterfuge-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1059&hilit=real+life&start=10
But I'd also be interested in feedback on a specific scenario in which I may have actually crossed the line..
I joined a game with another player with whom I'd already played two previous games of Subterfuge, and knew beforehand through another game we played together.
In the game in question, he was on one of my borders (so there was sort of an implicit alliance). On an opposite border was someone who seemed a fairly skilled player, but in chat struck me as fairly disrespectful and rude. Fast forward a few days -- I didn't do much early in the game and quickly felt I'd fallen behind the rest of the field. It seemed I didn't have much hope and the "rude" player seemed to be doing fairly well. Everyone else seemed somewhere in the middle.
I thought to myself, "rather than let this rude guy win, lemme give a bunch of outposts, drillers and specialists to the guy I know and hope HE can win it instead." Shortly after I'd done so, we were accused of multi-boxing and in hindsight, I can see why -- the trades we made were extremely lopsided.
I'm wondering, is this level of cooperation considered cheating? Or is it just considered by many players to be extremely poor form? The above threads give me the impression it's the latter, but I'd like to figure out where we stand and proceed accordingly in future games.
Thanks!