by davypi
I'm honestly trying to understand why you think such negotiations don't belong in the game. To start, in any game, any interplayer negation is allowed unless the rules specifically prohibit. Regarding TM/Gaia specifically, our group is often negotiating during setup. The start player doesn't exactly know where to put the first dwelling, so there is often talk of like, "I will put my first hut here if you put a hut there." Power leech is such a critical part of winning that securing neighbors on the first round is essential. I have no sympathy for players who do not want to co-operate towards this and then end up losing. I suppose I can see the difficulty of these kinds of negotiations on snellman, but IRL it doesn't take that long to establish these kinds of deals. (We've even had games of "I will take race A and let you have race B as long as you leave this income time for me.")↧