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Old January 6th, 2009, 07:17 PM

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Default Re: Beginner's Guide to EA Arcoscephale

Not the pixels, the topology of the map. A pathological case: consider a map in which every province is adjacent to every other province, vs. a "ring" topology in which provinces are arranged linearly with exactly two neighbors each. Strong dom sources will take much longer to spread in the second topology, but they'll be deeper where they do spread.

I'm not sure exactly how to *analyze* the topology of a map w/rt dom spread, but it's definitely a factor given the way temple checks and such work (white candles are likeliest to be deposited "close" to the generating temple).

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