MP Game - Zap's New game with House Rules

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
Actually, there's a few loopholes there which are a direct side effect of this: Since the castled provinces can't be jacked, you simply jack all of the opposing provinces devoid of castles...and build castles in a third of them. Since the rest are completely undefendable, somebody else will then jack them....and build castles in a third of the ones that are left. Pretty soon your entire castle census will become a giant jumbled mess as you will automatically lose of all of the noncastled provinces because they're completely undefendable.

I'll let you know if this actually happens after the game. I seriously doubt it, but won't be afraid to admit it if I'm wrong.

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I agree it'll not happen. Norf do not have a good grip on mathematics. Sure, because of territories changing hands the total perecentage of the castles _may_ increase a little. But the rule of 1/3 will always be in place for every new conquerer. There is no way the whole map will be covered by castles with this rule, it's mathematically impossible under any resonable scenario. My guess that max final percentage of the castle to not-castled provinces in our game will be 40-45% to 55-60%. And this is worst case scenario, I suspect it'll be lower than that.


Anyway, there is not much point of arguing about it now. We will see after the game. As Zap, I'll be first to admit if my predictions will be wrong, but I doubt that I'll have to.