[Xietor]

I can honestly say, with respect to the start positions, that I will never undertake to do something like it again. At the time I decided to do it, I never realized what an undertaking it would be.

Keeping track of all the starting spots, then trying to visualize where they are when you place the next one, is a challenge. Luckily I had a graphics program run by Ballbarian, that put yellow dots superimposed on the map image where i had capitals.

That helped me catch some errors, and I still have that image as the wall paper of my computer! But then some spots had to have neighbors changed, the map needed edited because dom III had flagged some as no start, etc.

But, I was in the same boat as every one else with respect to a random start, so i tried to make even the worst of them "ok" as I knew I may end up with it. While far from perfect, the flaws were not from lack of effort or time spent on my part.