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I think we should continue only after replacement of Orion. or end in few turns without it.

About other races - yes, maybe some of them had easy territories, but nobody has fleet of 80 warships for free capturing.

Orion is too powerful in comparison with other droppers, and Tholian has capture ability.

And, about continue - we haven't end of game rule still. There's only you who wants "last man standing", nobody supported your opinion.

snouka in Re: End the game?.. :

I didnt notice this thread so far.

What about:

3) Continue, and fight me?

I am also ok with a replacement player, but I just wanna point out that other races also were taking advantage of inactive players so far, by killing and taking over territories. We didnt stop the game there.

If Orion had ships worth to be taken in the face of 150 lizard ships (capitals, not total; just to get the knack) there would have been no need to drop out. But he lost two big ships for a base and decided that orion abilities won't help him with the given fleet.

I don't think that Tholians can make more use of the orionfleet than the Orions themselves could. And don't even think you could throw mines as you please. Dunno bout Siba but if it was my fleet of 150 capital ships the minesweep capacity would be around 5 fleets sweeping 40k mines (aka 30k webs) in a flash. And since it's Excelsiors we are speaking of you'ld get stuck in a 200ly oldfashioned minefield in return. Really a waste of time.

Switching positions of Orion and Tholian and ending the game afterwards seems to be a sensible aproach.