Meta-Gaming Strategies :: The Suicide

The strategic compendium for the astute player.

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Strategy	The Suicide
Definition	The player sacrifices his chances at victory in this game to gain social currency or to gain a more favorable position in future games.
Desired Result	In this way, the player cuts off his arm to help his body.
Commentary	This person is playing to lose, and so this may seen to be a kind of anti-strategy, but in actuality it's not. For the Suicide, the objective isn't to win the game, but to leave it in a desirable way. In some cases, the most desirable path to defeat is the quickest. In some cases, though, users of this strategy use their defeat as a means of conferring an advantage on another player. In still other cases, how one ends one game influences their role in future games.
Motto	?
Related Strategies	Like the Spoiler and the Punisher, this is a strategy not geared toward immediate victory.