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I agree with you, Micah, however, having played (and almost won) a big game with LA R'lyeh I must say that having graphs off was one of my biggest advantages. Good players who simply don't tend to build a lot of scouts just weren't aware that I controlled almost a half of the map by turn 50. They saw my provinces here and there but just didn't realize what was happening. When they do realize it now, it's far too late, I think, to change something. So graphs off definitely played for me in this game.
But I have plenty of scouts everywhere and know almost everything, so it really hardly implies to EA where scouts are uncommon.