In article <fiic7p$45d$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jim Burgess <burgess@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Let your inner insanity out to play! I've had people very seriously
>accuse me of trying to make them insane. I can be pretty annoyingly out
>there when I want to be (anyone around here want to admit when I did it
to
>them??). FTF though, people can see your gestures etc., but still, yes,
>I've done this FTF too.
Hm. My FTF experience with players who annoy me badly is that it's
a tremendously unproductive tactic for them--it will push me from
"I'm cru****ng you now but if the situation changes we can be
friends again" to "I'm going to eliminate you NOW even if it's
not exactly best play." The one thing that's clear about Dip is
that there's more hope before you get eliminated than after, so
I never want to convince someone that the game will be more
enjoyable if I'm gone.
It's possible that making me angry might give you a weakness to
exploit, but more likely, I think, it will give a third party a
weakness to exploit--so both you and I lose.
Of all the games I've played, perhaps my favorite was the
last round of a FTF tournament when a rather famous player
managed to piss off all four of the minor powers (who were
at 2-3 dots each after he stabbed them all). I got one
of them to help organize, we wrote orders for five sets of
pieces (plus me sweet-talking my one big ally into, mostly,
helping) and the famous player imploded.
It left me convinced that pissing people off is not a wise
thing to do. My hapless big ally ended up saying to the
four minor-power players, "You know Mary will solo, don't
you?" and being unable to distract them from their
enjoyment of dismembering their hated foe. Me? I was
cheering them all the way in to the kill. (And never
had to take a dot from them till the last move, so I
got to be a nice person to the very end.)
Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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