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Gandalf Parker said:
This might be my fault. I pushed for big maps and large games. Balancing for that might have knocked the blitzes out
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No need to apology Gandalf
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I myself e.g. love both, large maps in SP and occasional longterm MPs and small maps in blitzes.
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Gandalf Parker said:
Someone will always be too good for blitzes. But others are "too good" for large maps, or many player games with alliances. Im not sure if it could be fixed for one game type without messing up the others. Maybe if a version of DOm was created just for small blitz maps.
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Only time will tell, but at least some bless rush nations might do as well in longterm games too.
And if a blitz strat can kill another player immediately, unless the longterm mp map is very huge it can happen there too. And the advantage of getting a 2nd castle, extra gems, maybe some searched provinces etc. can be a nice boost. If you were lucky to have an ultrabless strat and neighbor someone who cannot counter it adequatly such a rush might boost your longterm potential a lot too in that game.
So maybe longterm games might not be that different
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There is more diplomacy of course, but at least those ppl who also play blitzes know then too well how scary an uberbless strat is in earlygame and thus are hesitant to gangbang the player who uses a blessrush in earlygame.
We have exactly this situation in the DDD-Pbem currently. Jurri took an uberbless, but all of his neighbors are scared and dare not to attack him. Will be definately interesting, i think Jurri has a very good chance of winning this game, especially because it is a VP game, so he doesn't have to continue till lategame where he might be more vulnerable.