On some other rules subjects, we should think about house rules. I like the Redscape house rules.
One of the most important areas of house rules is about draws. Redscape’s draw condition is a “draw including all survivors” (DIAS). A DIAS is unranked; so a country with 3 centers doesn’t finish worse than a country with 10 centers. This condition is important to avoid wrangling over a few centers in a game that will be a draw anyway. I propose that we play by this draw condition unless another player who’s already played some games proposes something different.
Me too, but I didn’t see it in the rules PDF that was sent out, and I wanted to underscore it. I used to think that draws were ranked by center count when I started playing.
On some other rules subjects, we should think about house rules. I like the Redscape house rules.
One of the most important areas of house rules is about draws. Redscape’s draw condition is a “draw including all survivors” (DIAS). A DIAS is unranked; so a country with 3 centers doesn’t finish worse than a country with 10 centers. This condition is important to avoid wrangling over a few centers in a game that will be a draw anyway. I propose that we play by this draw condition unless another player who’s already played some games proposes something different.
I thought DIAS was the de facto standard.
Me too, but I didn’t see it in the rules PDF that was sent out, and I wanted to underscore it. I used to think that draws were ranked by center count when I started playing.
I’ve added that in.