Trying the other end of the scale this time.
www.techno-mage.com/~dominion now has 3 files for FastStart. You need the TGA and the MAP. The YAB is optional since its the code that was used to create the MAP.
On this map every race is given 7 extra provinces besides their starting one. Almost all randoms that can be removed, have been removed. Each of the province gets a random castle but its in the more common range for castles. Each get an additional commander with troops and possibly some low level items but they are in the more common range there also.
Each of the additional provinces will have a castle, a lab, and a temple. Each of them will have a population of 10,000. Each of the additional provinces have a defence of 25 so even though there is that first round of ownership combat, most should be able to hang onto the province.
I know this is not completely fair to all of the races but I have found no way to just start them with more money, or a large gift of astral gems to start-boost magic research.
Re-playing this map will give you a new HOME province and grant all of the commanders a new roll for magic items in case you feel your race got a really bad start. Oh yeah and re-decide the native units in the extra provinces. The other things require a new map.
The files are not zipped together because if there is interest in this map then I can add it to the systems daily processes to generate a new MAP file that can be downloaded each day giving completely new locations for all of the extra provinces.
The usual payment for free items would be appreciated (some comments?)
FastStart map now available
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