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Originally Posted by 340x4xLife
The purpose of the rule is to keep the games close and discourage teams from blowing other alliances out.
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Since this hasn't been explicitly stated anywhere, you might want to be careful asserting it as fact.
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Originally Posted by dlavery
I do have to ask: why are you so convinced that the GDC was attempting to "level the playing field"? [...] I can tell you that some of those publicly stated assumptions (including those concerning the rationale behind Rule <G14>) are just flat out wrong. Perhaps there were reasons other than "leveling the playing field" [...] that might have affected the design of the game?
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