Accidental/Intentional map design problems.

[Lord_Bob]

<I have checked the math, and it is true that one/two players a game are normally going to draw the short straw on games on wraparound maps.>

<I apologize. However, it is bad luck, and a lack of change on provinces per player from the days of no wrap-around maps.>

<Also, apparently capital placement was random?????? on this map. So I would expect things to be odd.>

So I'm playing BAG, and it seems that someone placed me only three moves from the enemies capital. To be clear:

(MY Capital)-(A province)-(A province)-(Enemy Capital)

There were supposed to be 15 provinces per player.

We seem a little, close, for 15 provinces a player.

I'd be curious to look at the whole map and see if any people benefitted with wide open spaces for thier capitals.

Is it because we added one empire on at the last minute?

If Patala and Tien Chi are the only capitals with this problem, then it is probably that.

Really, cheating with the map is completely unacceptable and this degree of misplacement is extreme.

I heard the exact same thing happened in the Everymore with two of the water nations.

I'd like some feed-back on that.

If some people have developed the habit of thinking it's cute to rig the game by sticking nations close to each other I want to find out.

Oh, and to be clear, if the original map contained those two capitals adjacent, and this is not the result of a player being added at the last minute, I am must definitely accusing someone of cheating. I don't think Lazy_Perfectionist would be involved, but someone is.