Should host pass on final land grant?

[Blitzen]

Well said, not enough flame for my liking, but you've hit the nail on the head!

The conclusion has kinda left me stuck with nothing much to do though... online gaming sucks because of all the griefers, cheaters, bugs and of course the "technological limitations."

At least when people were face to face, and one of them held up on the auction to take a plot without the highest bid, we just reached over and smacked him in the back of the head...

But since there really isn't anything better to do, let me just stir the pot some more anyway!

Was it idealistic for men to want to go to the moon?  To send a man to the moon and bring him back for no good reason beyond the act of doing it??  IF it was, and we really did do it anyways, would that mean that ideals are actually worthy pursuits?  Didn't we become more by dreaming the impossible and making it real?  Well Americans anyway, I'm Canadian, we really never actually ever went to the moon... guess we just don't have the right stuff!

But what if we NEVER actually, REALLY, completely, totally got there at all?  And we just said we did.  Does that mean ideals are just damn good story material?  Interesting fluff to tranquilize the masses?  Wonderful to imagine but impossible to behold?

Is fair play in Planet Mule the 2010 moon race?  Did 50 puppets in Toronto this past weekend really cause the ENTIRE protest of 1000s to be shut down???

I say "yes", and please for the love of God remind me never to be host.

What say yee? 

[Orv]

Personally, I don't knowingly exploit bugs when I'm hosting. (I'll allow that I may have done it unknowingly on occasion.)  For me the game's not as much fun if someone has an unfair advantage, even if that someone is me.

I also try to tune my level of aggressiveness to the style other people are playing.  I've had friendly, casual games and cutthroat games; both are fun, but one cutthroat in an otherwise friendly game always comes off as a jerk, so I try not to be that guy.  (Ever seen Cable Guy?  You know the scene where Jim Carry's character ruins the pick-up game of basketball by taking it too seriously?  It's like that.)