Team Play in Singles Games

[anasazidreamer]

I have been a player and premium member for years now. Yes, the rules allow players who select a single game to form alliances, but it is seemingly becoming more and more rampant for people to join a singles game and then, with often very minimal visible chat, if any, go into team mode to eliminate the player who is using a single game strategy. This can easily be perverted to drive up the scores and ranking of the players who conspire to do this as a strategy even before beginning a game. Yes, the rules currently allow it. No, I don't know how it would be policed if the rules were changed to ensure that single games remain single games and not suddenly become a team game. However, it certainly is making gameplay, for someone who enjoys a single-player strategy, very frustrating. Suggestions? Are there others who feel this way? Enough to have a rules change considered?

[clangfield]

I have been a player and premium member for years now. Yes, the rules allow players who select a single game to form alliances, but it is seemingly becoming more and more rampant for people to join a singles game and then, with often very minimal visible chat, if any, go into team mode to eliminate the player who is using a single game strategy. This can easily be perverted to drive up the scores and ranking of the players who conspire to do this as a strategy even before beginning a game. Yes, the rules currently allow it. No, I don't know how it would be policed if the rules were changed to ensure that single games remain single games and not suddenly become a team game. However, it certainly is making gameplay, for someone who enjoys a single-player strategy, very frustrating. Suggestions? Are there others who feel this way? Enough to have a rules change considered?

What would the rule change be, though? No diplomancy of any kind?
If it's the gameplay that really bothers you, why are you concerned about the 'perverted' affect on the score?
The issue, as I see it, is that there are times when the most obviously beneficial strategy is for multiple players to attack a single opponent; you'd then get even more spurious reports of collusion, when in fact it's just good players recognising the same opportunity. I trust you're not suggesting that every player needs to attack every opponent equally on every turn (which is impractical in trench or fog, and unwise in terminator)?
Perhaps it's just your strategy that's not quite right and needs looking at (one might surmise from your win rate), rather than the rules... Or you could just stick to 2 player games