So we really only have 2 options? Concede and pick 1 random part of alliance to be winner or Draw and split pot 9 ways despite clear victory by 3 of us?

Hi SlawDawg -

Your understand of Concede is correct. It only works if everyone except one person votes Concede. At that time, that player is declared the winner.

Otherwise, your choices are:
1) Everyone votes draw and whoever is alive is part of the draw.
2) Continue the game

Interesting indeed. I remember such situations in FTF games, the survivors that accepted losing conceded to a winning alliance.

That's an advantage of FTF games, or of PBEM games with a human GM, that people can work out an unusual result like this.

I would dislike that feature. Games should be played out until the end. A seemingly clear 3-way draw may suddenly change into a solo threat.

Agree with Mercy. This situation is unusual; usually it takes just a few turns to eliminate anyone who might want to concede anyway. And even when this does happen, 3-way draws are often unbalanced and someone goes for a solo. You should have only 3 options: concede a solo to someone, draw for everyone alive to share the points, or continue.

I hear you guys. Our 3-way alliance has gone to great pains to keep ourselves balances to prevent a solo. I currently have a very slight 2 SC lead over my allies. I'd be open to continuing to only 1, but I think the other players are burned out after we had one player sort of abandon game and purposefully drawing out each turn now. He refuses to ever hit ready. It's kind of killed the game. We most likely will just do a draw once he is dead after our current turn, but wanted to confirm options.

In the ken lowe judge pbem, there was a specific setting for. The default was DIAS (draw includes all survivors). In game creation, it could be set no NoDias.

So it still can be a feature for implementation. We don't have to have 100% agreement. Think of ppsc... the same... you just don't play the games set the way you don't wanna play.

You should finish the game. If you can get a solo, I'd say go for it, but since you can eliminate those other survivors and get to the 3-way and if that's your true end game do it. It obviously depends on the variant, but a 3 way draw means you couldn't beat two people. 3/7 is eh, 3/15 is better, and 3/50 is pretty good.

A draw including all survivors only makes sense to me. If power (d) still has a chance at influencing (b) and (c) to attack (a), then the game is still afoot.

Hey, if you have a slight advantage, perhaps expand it and solo. That would certainly finish the game. Especially if some of the other 2 in the power alliance are tired, you can get the jump on them

Or they make start fighting each other, too.