Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by 340x4xLife

The purpose of the rule is to keep the games close and discourage teams from blowing other alliances out.

Since this hasn't been explicitly stated anywhere, you might want to be careful asserting it as fact.

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?