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FrankTrollman said:
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It seems we have a different definition of "advantage".
Rush positions are best on small maps (10 provinces per player), and get increasingly bad on medium (15 provinces per player), or large maps (20 provinces per player).
Faerun has 424 provinces on it. At 16 players, that's still over 26 provinces per player. That's titanic. That's... very bad news for a rush position.
Even if we threw in 4 more players, it would still qualify as a map larger than "large" for the number of participants. I don't think throwing a bone to the rush positions is all that weird under the circumstances.
And I'm playing New Faith Ermor. It's not like a good showing by Helheim in the early game particularly favors me. It looks like from what we have we could throw in all the alternates, and make all the start locations fixed and known, and rush powers would still be crawling uphill on their tongue.
Heck, it's even high magic sites, so the bulge that a capitol has over a random neutral province is pretty small. The whole "I took over another country" thing isn't even all that big a deal...
-Frank
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Count on Frank to get to the point...
Well, right now my knowledge of map editing is very limited, all I know how to do is #nostart, and #specstart, I
really don't want to start in precisely fixed positions, and it seems like a pain to put in #nostarts everywhere but the 16 we actually want to use.
I'll look into it further tomorrow morning, and see if there's something more direct we can do.
BTW, I don't have much experience in playing w/ magic site frequency: if 60 makes many provinces just as good as capitals, that would be a good reason to lower it. I know from playing SP that 45 still leaves plenty of sites, but nonetheless I was thinking it'd be fun to have more than average # of sites. OTOH, simply having the huge map, w/ its special provinces maybe means the gem supply will be far more than adequate right off the bat.