I like gifting, in a domination game I had 10 factories, and brown had 1. He had a tycoon, and I told him if he gave me his Tycoon I would give him double the drillers in gifts that he would have gotten from his tycoon.

kevlargolem wrote:actually... I think removing specialist gifting might be a good idea. It might be the simplest way to eliminate the problem with stacking specialists like King/Admiral. Its very hard to stack these specs when you can't rely an allies trading/giving them to you.

Actually King stacking is not made any more difficult because of the fact that kings are promoted from hypnotists

For multiboxing and Kingmaking, the easiest way to solve this would be to have a game option with 2 pre-determined computer generated 'teams'. Players in the same team automatically gift their arriving subs to each other (unless an outpost has nothing there, in which case the computer interprets it as the gifting of an outpost), and players in opposing teams may only attack each other.

tw2000 wrote:Actually King stacking is not made any more difficult because of the fact that kings are promoted from hypnotists

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tw2000 wrote:For multiboxing and Kingmaking, the easiest way to solve this would be to have a game option with 2 pre-determined computer generated 'teams'. Players in the same team automatically gift their arriving subs to each other (unless an outpost has nothing there, in which case the computer interprets it as the gifting of an outpost), and players in opposing teams may only attack each other.

While that might be a viable game mode, its doesnt actually solve the problems brought up in this thread. Actually if you think about it- it highlights the problem. Basically you will be garunteed that the last player alive on a team will have every spec hired by their former teammates. Also, you are guaranteed that one player will be stacking everyone's Kings throughout the game.

I also just dont think Team Deathmatch is viable at high level play because of how global effects work, and how effective turtling is. Basically the strongest play would be for the team to gift their outposts and their global effect specs to one best/hardcore player, and then the rest of them turtle.

And even if TD were viable, all the tools are available to do it on your own. Just make the rules clear at the beginning, and tell people what team they are on. Its not that hard to set your sub to gift, rather than have the game do it for you.