Dicelord> "Also, 'about kdice' section on news page (top right corner) ends with this: "

I guess you mean top <b>left</b> :-)

Other than that, may I point you to
http://kdice.wikispaces.com/news
? Of course its all "third-party" ;-)

on this page:
<a href="http://aplayr.com/kdice/kdice/">http://aplayr.com/kdice/kdice/</a>;
look on th eright top corner

@ Sandy and fuzzy

I got no time to do this at the moment. I played sandbox a lot because i like the system and tried hard to understand how it works. I am not sure _if_ i will do it. Answering questions and writing a text is something completely different though.

"""I was right! It is on the right!
Same page <b>on the right</b> there is another thing <b>that's not right</b>:"""

Now, Is it right or not right? Sorry for the small pathic humor from my side ;-)

The new system leave everything to luck now. People will just attack every turn and having strategy doesnt even come into play. Yes you might get the truces taken away, but you take away strategy at the same time.

It seems like this new scoring would encourage the #1 dominating player to make the game drawn out. Someone told me that it didn't make any difference, but they couldn't explain how so here is what I am saying.

#1 player has 25 territories and clearly can't lose.

#2 , 3, 4 are splitting up 15 other territories battling it out for placement.

Normally, either they would flag, or #1 would come and knock them all out, or cut them up and the game would be over in a few rounds.

However, it seems like #1 would want the game to last for as many rounds possible because it would increase his avg# of territories with each consecutive round that he held on to those 25 spots.

I was in a game where I "deserved" 2nd, but the #1 kept us all around and close enough that no one wanted to flag. He was sitting there basically watching or attacking one person at a time with +32 dice. When the game was over, he got a huge bonus for dominance, when really the game was fairly close until the end. At one point there were 4 players, me and #1 started battling with about 14 dice each, and the other 2 had about 5 each. So you can see that he didnt really dominate the board for the first 20 rounds, but then he sat on his 30 dice for 20 more to get the # up.

Is there some mechanism that prevents doing something like this?

When I asked about the stats on:
"The results have been mostly positive."
I got an immediate slap on the wrist.
Yeah, how did I even dare question this :)

reading dicelord's comments it also does seem like people would commit suicide when they start to get small in order to prevent the same thing.

Yes, I have found it useful to suicide attack once it's clear I'm stuck and cant expand any further. I don't think this is necessarily bad though, it certainly speeds up the game and eliminates the need to wait several turns for dice to build up, attack once, wait several turns, attack once...

well the sandbox was open long enough, but now people complain when it is mainstream ;-)

To summ it up:
* The old system was not perfect, and there were quite a lot ways to abuse it.
* The new system is not perfect, and there are NEW ways to abuse it.

Altough altogether I think the ways to abuse it are smaller in the new system...

All in all the scoring system is not what I consider really part of kdice the game. A game is just a game, where you try to win... just like in "Dice Wars". The scoring system is just some candy most like, but others just ignore.