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I actually don't think it should be required, but I view the lack of water as a much bigger issue than lack of elephants.
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Well, Chris, I have to agree you're right.
What can be done is:
1) mark some provinces as "fresh water" which will increase the chance of a water site AFAIK.
2) add some random lakes so that neighbouring provinces become coastal.
However, this should be done evenly throughout the map. Not a hard task.
But anyway I have to say that water sites are by far not the rarest in general. From my experience W and D sites are the most common ones even on land (though maybe it comes from "coastal" and "fresh water").
So, while I think it's ok to increase the chance of water sites on this map, I still disagree to give your team even more extra gem income in addition to Pythian. If you are particularly desperate, you may choose to exchange some of your S income to W. I think, Septimius will allow it.
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Finally water has utility in water; which there is none in the game virtually.
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I think with your team having access to clams it will not be hard for you to use the water gems.
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It is my opinion that you way overestimate the power of elephants.
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No, I don't. I would think twice before using them much with any nation but Caelum, probably. Especially in a game with settings like this. But that's me. I just say that it there's a widely spread opinion that elephants are super cool and they probably are to some degree. As for me, I think, that Arco has better troops than elephants if you can afford non-sloth and so do monkeys, although early expansion with elephants is easy indeed. I also don't consider Machaka a crappy nation but I have absolutely no desire to argue with 99% of the people here who think otherwise.
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Yeah, I'd be ok with them having the Risen Oracle as well.
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Me too, but I'm pretty sure Septimius will not allow this because it's non-thematic.
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So we haven't gotten the team members set, so I don't want to commit before discussions with them.
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it seems that the game is full at the moment.
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As for site searching other paths.. Sure, we can do that.
However, our pretenders are required to be our primary or secondary paths - and this setup is requiring we take a path that will have way fewer gems.
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No, they are not. You may take up to 3 in any school that your pretender doesn't originally come with or that is not your team path. Also, no matter who you choose, your national mages can search 6 of 8 paths anyway. The same applies for our team, for example, and, probably, the others as well