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Current Vote Tally:

Should we ban Utterdark? 10 Yes, 25 No
Should we ban Arcane Nexus? 31 Yes, 8 No
What should the research speed be? 19 Difficult, 18 Very Difficult
What age should the indys be? 9 Early, 17 Middle, 2 Late

So it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that AN will be banned and UD will not. It also appears that the age fighting in will be Middle.

It's still a complete toss up in the research area though. Had a lot of "difficults" come in yesterday/today.

Also - looking at the submitted nation selections it would appear that provided you sent me 4 choices, chances are you will get one of those, provided you didn't pick the most popular ones. Of course, as we get more players the chances of that decrease. If we fill up quite a bit of people who didn't provide 8 or more preferences will be stuck with random assignments in the lowest seed.

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Im not a modder, but it would be cool if it was possible to have different research dif at different magic levels. Perhaps "normal" reserch for level 1-3, difficult for 4-6 and v.difficult at 7-9. This way the magic nations would be able to reach some magic to counter the bless nations, and it would still take a long time to finish all research.

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oh any hint what the top 5 picks are ?? would be funny to know what nations people like/consider strong.

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Probably exactly what you think would be popular! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Actually, once assignments are done would people like to see everyone's picks and how they were assigned? I'm going to use random numbers from random.org, but I'd be happy to break down the process for clarities sake once completed.

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A stab in the dark for the 5 most picked nations are : EA niefel, EA helheim, EA lanka, LA ermor and LA R'lyeh. Was I even close ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Also - there has been some questions on the seeding process.

Namely: "So if get my forth pick on my list then I'm automatically going to get %20 extra pop on my capital?"

No. Or at least - not necessarily. How it works:

After the first seed I look at the remaining players and *discard* all nations from preferences that have already been assigned in the first seed. So... for example:

Player A choices:
Vanheim MA
Niefelhiem EA
Pythium
MA Marignon

Player B choices
Neifelhiem EA
MA Ermor
MA Miclan
MA Oceania

Player C choices:
Pythium
EA Abysia
Tir na n'Og

Player D Choices:
MA Vanheim
MA Caelum

Player E Choices:
(none)

Would resolve like such:

Seed 1
Player B auto gets Nifelheim (no conflict)
Player C auto gets Pythium (no conflict)
Player A vs. Player D - Player D wins the random roll off and gets MA Vanheim

Seed 2
Player A auto gets MA Marignon (no conflict)

Seed 3
Player E gets a random assignment.

Now this is going to much more complicated with 62 players - but keep in mind if you pick the most popular choices, even if your list is long you still probably won't get into a low seed.

I would be surprised if lowest seed is higher than 6.

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Would be interesting...perhaps the most definitive indication of what players really think are the most powerful nations.

I went for 2 in that list in my choices and give serious consideration to the other 3.

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Not true, a lot of players pick nations they are comfortable with and like (cool theme, fun to play etc) not just nations they consider powerful. In my case i consider 1 of my picks strong, 3 above average and one average in strenght for example.

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I think the listing would tell you more about players - like who plays to win vs. who plays with nations they thematically like.

We all play for fun though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Most people are somewhere in the middle I would guess. Like Meglo they threw in a couple well known heavy hitters, but have a few soft spots for favorites. There are probably about 10 nations that are VERY popular - so getting those will be tough. It's good to throw in another average/sub-average nation you just enjoy playing in case you don't get those.

And of course there is a small but not insignificant number of players that choose the "Random" route.

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Yes, rule no.1 never pick a nation you do not like playing, so no Helheim or Vanheim for me!