So I found this at the bottom of a thread written by kdicefreak about PGA's, but it seemed to deserve its own thread. It doesn't have the best grammar, but not bad for writing in 2nd language, anyway...

IllvilJa wrote
at 12:28 PM, Tuesday December 15, 2009 CST

Hm. I don't do PGA myself and would never consider it. And sure, it has a negative impact on the game. At those times it actually happens, I perhaps should add, because I'm quite convinced it does not always do.

But there are two evils here which I am confronted with when playing KDice. One of them are other players actually using PGAs (regardless if I'm aware of it or not) and the other evil is to start regarding all players as potential users of PGA.

One of these two evils I cannot really affect. I cannot realistically prevent others from doing PGAs and MORE IMPORTANTLY I cannot reliable even identify them! Not reliable enough for me to actually free anyone from the suspicion of being PGAs nor justify me accusing anyone for being PGAs.

Which brings me over to the one of these two evils which I actually CAN affect: my own suspicion of others being PGAs. I can choose to always assume that the other players never are practicing any PGAs. That way, I won't go around accusing other players for cheating, don't cause a lot of atrocity and in general, I'll enjoy the game a LOT MORE than if I did spend a lot on energy on distrusting folks. It's not that I'm naive, but I've decided not be a bad loser.

It IS extremely frustrating to have someone accusing you to be a PGA just because they lost to you and someone else who, without any pre-game agreement, happened to cooperate with you just because the situation in the game logically lead to it (classic: end game, three players remaining with one guy in the middle. OF COURSE the middle one can expect get a two front war, that does not require a PGA to run into that).

So, even if I can understand the desire to keep PGAs out of the game, I don't think one should underestimate the negative impact of the "ghost of PGA paranoia" has on the gaming experience. Bad losers already have enough 'excuses' for blaming you for denying them their 'right' to win.

A note: the game is a LOT about psychology, not only explicit in the chat but how you act on the game board. Sometimes, the game's somewhat chaotic nature creates a situation where you and some other color just happens to never need to attack each others territories. That situation can cause some sort of irrational trust between the players ("Hm, that one is not trying to cause me trouble in this game") and later, if both survives to end game, they can end up cooperating and THAT WITHOUT EXCHANGING A SINGLE CHAT MESSAGE! So, what seem to be a PGA don't necessarily have to be one.

So, if someone explicitly states that he don't mind using PGA, well, then he does, as far as I am concerned. Of course, the administrators of KDice are more than welcome to remove such individuals' accounts, but I would really not fight the KDice administrators if they decided the oppisite either. So do as you please. KDice will be a great game for me either way.

Ok, my $0.02 (+ interest for a couple of millenia) worth of ranting.

Best regards

/IllvilJa