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Arralen said:
Remark about mapmaking
Wouldn't it have been easier to use 17 "#start" commands instead of 262 "#nostart" commands ??
When placing starting positions, did you pay attention to the terrain of the neighbouring provinces? I think you didn't ... . Some nations rely at least initially on troops build with ressources, which they might not have if everything around is plains or grass.
Map errors
wrong connections:
39 - 60
42 - 60
terrain errors:
#2 should be normal
#10 should be small
#58 should be large
#143 should be large
Magic Sites Setting
Someone said sites 50 would be a good balance with bloodhunting.
Did a test game on poor Orania map: Gives not only very few resources, but low income as well. This will limit the numbers of blood hunters.
Found myself constantly cashing in fire and earth gems just to be able to buy more mages (no bloodhunting, though).
This might result in a very gem-centric game. I would suggest sites 40 or something.
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OK, I don't know anything about map making.
1. This is the first I have heard about the #start command.
2. I did look at the surrounding terrain when making the start positions. I even changed terrains in a couple of places to try to make this better. However, it is not possible to balance this unless I change dozens of terrains. Each player will simply have the luck of the draw as to whether they have plains, swamps, farm lands, etc, around their capitols. There just is not anything that can be done about it. If you are relying on resources, then you had better select productivity. If you are relying on gold, select order.
3. I have no idea how to make a province large or small.
4. I believe that blood hunting will eventually rule because the poor world does NOT reduce population. There is just as many 5K population provinces on a poor world as on a rich world. Of course, getting the blood mages is not very easy and blood can't be traded for gold, so this may balance it out.
5. I too though 50% sites might be high, but never really heard any alternatives. I did a few tests at 40%, but the difference between 40 and 50 is not significant in 20 turn tests so I could not make any conclusions.
Arralen, If you want to take a stab at fixing up the map and attaching it, I would greatly appreciate this.
There are STILL 4 pretenders I have not yet received. These are:
Caelum
Ermor
Mictlan
Ulm
Send those in ASAP. I will be back from golf at noon today (unless I get rained out). I hope to see all pretenders by then.
Panther