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chris - anyone who sends their pretender into the arena is either a fool or very brave. I can't see that it can be very unbalancing, because I can't think of a reasonable way to be sure of winning against 60 other contenders. So I think the added interest it will add to the game will far more than counterbalance the (admittedly not ideal) last-minute-addition factor.

I mean, imagine seeing a 60-duel arena fight!

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I am open to some kind of scaling of reward with turn number. That would help with later deathmatches to keep them relevant too. If anyone can come up with a cunning scheme I'd be interested.

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Yeah, most people have to ask though if they want to give one of the giants 1k gold just to see few of them die.

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In the interest of complete disclosure(and the map file used will be made public at some point in the game), one additional
starting spot was added. Regrettably this spot only has 3 neighbors(: As compensation one of the provinces adjoining the capital was coded to have a couple of mines.

For reasons I will not disclose now, a specific race was designated to start at this new location(and no it was not me) but the reasons were explained to the the person playing said race in a pm, with my apologies.

Of course anyone wanting to volunteer to start in the new spot and have a guarantee of 2 mines in an adjoining province let me know, and the spot is yours!

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What mines? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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i aint saying what mines. maybe they are copper, maybe they are gold, maybe they are iron. who knows?

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Were the neutral flags changed so they look like something else?

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Disagree.

Anyone that has a recyclable pretender - for example a wyrm with no magical paths.

Sure, I wouldn't Deathmatch a wyrm in the first few turns either. But around turn 8-10 - when I've run out of free expansion - sure I would.

In many cases, dominion doesn't matter - but the chance of SC kiling does.

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Oh god. They're landmines aren't they?

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I'd like to take that spot. Just keep the location for yourself, please. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif