[Calahan]

Any game that has over 20 provinces per player is just asking for a disaster. And if the total provinces on the map is over 250, then while not as bad as the former, it is still asking for trouble to call at some point in the game.

You said above that you are new to Dominions, and so new to Dominions MP. Please do yourself the biggest favour possible and play in some regular MP games first before deciding that you would be happy to play a game under the settings you've outlined on this thread. It honestly doesn't matter how much you enjoy playing the game in SP, or enjoy spending hour upon hour playing it in SP. Nothing can prepare you (time wise) for the huge step-up to MP games. The community has lost several players over the years due to people opting to run at full speed before they could stand. So please allow yourself to get a good taste for Dominions MP games in general before even considering to play in such a massive scale game.


As I can not stress strongly enough how bad an idea such a high (20+) province-player ratio is. Dominions does not scale the same as other strategy games, as while it can be fun playing Gal Civ or Civ 2/3/4 with mega maps, the same can not be said of Dominions. The UI offers no help in managing huge empires, and the reality is that while it can be fun some nights to spend 2-3 hours playing Dominions, if you have to put in 2-3 hours every night of every day for 6-12 months just to play one game, then the fun factor evaporates very quickly. It is impossible, and I mean absolutely flat out impossible, to get the feel from SP games of a large scale MM heavy empire in the late stage of the game.

So as I just said, please do yourself a big favour and just play some regular MP games first.


Plus I really don't envisage you getting many players for the setting you are proposing, simply because most playes know that such a large scale (player-province ratio) is a really bad idea. And those that don't know will get told it the moment they ask anyone sensible. Just check out the Doomday5 game (or all the previous ones) currently taking place if you want to observe what disaster can await any game that has stupidly high player-province ratios.