Survivor, a discussion on a MP game concept

[Jarkko]

Being recently reminded of my old heydays in Diplomacy PBM, I would like to find out if there would be interest in a sort of Survivor MP.

8 players join the game. This type of game really requires an admin who is not a player himself, so an admin would be needed too.

If at any time one player holds 6 or more capitals, then he is declared the winner. Starting with (for example) turn 20 (in Diplamacy PBM the first vote was after two years of playing) players have to vote (every 10 turns) for a player to be booted out from the game. The players send their votes in secret to the admin, who tallies up the votes and then makes them public (so everybody gets to see who voted who). The nation whose player got voted out is set to AI. If the voting goes on so that there are just two players are left, the six players who have been kicked out vote for the winner of the game (if neither player gets 4 votes, the game continues for 10 turns and a new vote is taken unless either has been able to take 6 capitals of course).

Failure to submit a vote would mean the player is automatically booted out (ie the votes are not tallied, but the player who didn't submit a vote gets the boot instead automatically).


This type of a game would certainly not be for everybody. At least in Diploamcy much drama did follow after the player in the leading position was voted out, and I would presume same would happen in here.

Maybe some sort of an "immunity" could be available for the first three voting rounds. Maybe based on the score-graphs (for example, players leading the score in dominion (this is the game called Dominions, after all ) would be immune during the first three votes (it can be different player on different rounds of course, depending who leads the Dominion score)), or maybe some province on the map would provide the immunity, or perhaps being the current holder of the Arena champion would make you immune. Voting rules could also be in effect, for example in Diplomacy it was customary in these type of games to not be allowed to vote twice on row the same player (and if you did vote twice in row same player, you got treated as if you hadn't voted at all, ie booted out).



Now, would there be interest in such a game? If there would be, some definite rules would have to be hammered out (because if the rules are a bit fluffy, lots of tears will be the result).