HO is great if you have the losing cards in your hand and you can "double or nothing" with your HO. If you can beat the opponent without risking a HO, then agreeing to HO is simply stupid. It still takes 2 to HO and either one can decide to break it. Usually the one with more to lose (energy, angles, position, altitude, virtual prestige, whatever) avoids the HO or then both just decide to gun it out.
What is so complicated about the whole HO issue? Forget it already
