by mesquiton » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:25 pm
I don't know the answer, but I recall marcus wilby always favored having lots of (*) base-stealers, for the reasons noted by sponedal and rmilter...don't know of any other purpose for the (*).
It's never been clear to me to what extent TSN uses the "super-advanced" rules...even Bernie has often seemed uncertain. I've seen posts that most of them are used, but maybe not all.
My impression is that SOMO kinda came up with its own hybrid set of rules when the game engine was programmed, Bernie generally tries to implement the "super-advanced" rules, but even he doesn't know all that's hidden in the code.