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Frostmourne27 said:
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Velusion said:
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I only play in large game (usually full of nations for that age) and clam whordeing is almost always done by the winner(s). I'm sure it's completely ridiculous in the megagame as well. I wouldn't be surprised if LA R'lyeh and EA Oceana (each who have natural mages with the paths to forge calms) don't already have at least 75-100 clams up and running and it's only around turn 65. You usually can't compete in the late game of large games unless you invest in a clam, fever, or stone factory.
Gem producing items do not scale well. I have no problem with them in shorter games though.
And there have been complaints in quite a few MP threads and here in the forums (quite a few - do a seach).
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Ok, you play large games. Isn't that a bit like complaining about the fact that Ulm sucks in the late game. If you reqularily play on maps wiht 500+ provinces, balance changes enourmously. I don't think that's the most common form of game here though.
As for complaints, I just searched the forums, and I found, uhhh, two threads on it, and assorted mentions in the MP and AAR category. Of course, there are a huge number of incidental hits. The two threads, I should note, were on a clam-related bug and the worth of empowering to forge clams. Not a huge complaint about balance. I'll try and start a poll, if I can figure the code out, to find out how unbalancing people think they are.
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I usually play about 14-16/provinces per player. The game considers that "medium" though in the MP world it's considered large. The average map I play on is probably around 250-310 provinces with about 20 players.
Most of the complaints are in MP threads or scattered in other threads (like this thread for example).
As far as the amount of large MP player games, true there are fewer of them but there are usually about 3-4 going on at a time (at least) and they usually involve 2-3x more players than a smaller game. The Perp game alone had 62 players - and there will be another mega game starting. I think you underestimate the amount of MP players/games that are affected by clam whoreding.
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