Greetings all: (well, all the participants and our illustrious map maker
)
There seems to be a problem with the map and the setup.
All the empires of the Black Hole Alliance have now compared their starting positions and determined starting setup has a fault in it.
You know how, when you start out sometimes, you receive "free" scans of nearby systems? Well, I am virtually sure that one empire is inter-mixed with another empire of the opposing team. In fact, it appears one of the enemy homeworlds is completely surrounded by one of our empires.
That doesn't seem like a fair start for that person especially since another of our alliance members is only 4 systems away from both of them.
It also doesn't seem to reflect the map setup and starting positions we wanted to have for the challenge match.
I suspect the problem is that we joined in a different order than our proposed alliances. By that, I mean all of one alliance should join and then the other. It appears empires are assigned to starting points in some sort of contiguous manner.
Anyway, what do you guys think? To me, it only seems fair, especially the one empire of the Olden Ones caught in "inside" one of our (and a second empire so close), to exit the game, start another one, join in alliance order and generate a new map.
Comments?