Re: Big maps, few players: Balance?
Very nice so far thanks! Hmm, but the polls seem to say that people are not playing with too few nations on too big maps. So I guess its not that much of a general problem. Nevertheless I am interested in this topic, as I want to use a big map with few friends playing PBEM and we decided against the AI, and as the game takes some time to play I want to make sure it will be interesting and that no one gets a disadvantage by not following the game's advice on the number of players...
What about magic resources and research? Some nations depend more on gems and/or magic research than others. I expect a large map game to Last longer, so should one alter the settings as proposed by Cohen?
This would also mean something about pretenders: An immobile pretender offers better blessings/scales/research, hence they would be much more useful on a larger map. As additionally the dominion spread of the pretender is less important on large maps as well...(which keeps me from using immobile pretenders on small maps)
@PvK: forgive me my bad english. I guess I wanted to say "less useful" rather than "more useless" (I guess I slipped into german-language thinking of "nutzloser")
@Gandalf: Actually I knew your page, but I had forgotten about it at the time I posted this poll. Sorry for not using your size-terminology...
[ May 27, 2004, 09:56: Message edited by: Chazar ]
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