[Septimius Severus]

Good suggestions by all of you. Sorry Lumen forgot about you for sec, and who could forget that awesome defense work you did in NvVI.

As usual there are many issues to tackle in arriving at settings that are fair to both sides. I can't make everybody happy, but I hope that everyone realizes that I have and will continue to strive to be as fair and impartial as possible.

Which is why I'm recommending a symetrical map this time around (not as pretty to look at) but nations can be placed at equal and even distances and so forth. I am a big fan or even numbers and order.

I don't want to come in at turn 10 and see a huge disparity in expansion and province totals. It is kinda like how you'd rather watch a sports game that is tied at the halfway mark, you know that their is excitement ahead rather than getting the feeling it's already over.

While I believe yes, the vets experience should account for a somewhat quicker expansion pace, we should take care that the vets don't have first pick at all the power nations to insure that this expansion gap doesn't get out of hand. Do you guys get where I'm coming from?

Hence my suggestion of giving the noobs nations a bit of a boost in their cap. This will be especially important if the vets recieve first choice, in some form or fashion. If we create lists to alternate between would the noob nations know how best to fashion theirs?

QM, what is the lastest version of CBM?