On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 11:02 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Had to go back and refresh my memory again! > > There was no official thing as concurrent, automatic trades. I'd > say 99% was done on a handshake deal. I personally don't have any > memory of anyone breaking a handshake deal on purpose, and if done > on accident then the breaker almost always tried to make it right.
It's interesting to compare that with my observations of behaviour more recently. I've never seen anyone break a handshake deal at any period where I've been playing personally. On the other hand, there were several instances where people voluntarily made rules-enforced deals, then reneged on them. (Of course, part of the reason for this pattern may be that people would be more likely to try to rules-enforce a deal if they felt that the other party was untrustworthy.) -- ais523
