MP Game - Anyone interested in a *really* slow game? *full and running**

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
I will change the map the Karan_dry if somebody will upload that map

I've packaged them up as karan_dry.map and karan_dry.tga in a karan_dry.zip file, but am having no luck uploading - 0 KB/sec.

Update : I believe the karan_dry files have successfully been uploaded.

As I mentioned, I just renamed the karan tga file, figuring that a couple megs of redundant / duplicate file wasn't a big deal with todays computers.

[ July 26, 2004, 23:04: Message edited by: Cainehill ]

[archaeolept]

ok i'll see what i can do w/ the giant spiders

i'll upload when i get home, sometime this evening (in a few hours)

[Cainehill]

Still working on my pretender, I'll have it up by sometime Wednesday (the proposed start); if it looks like almost everyone else has uploaded I'll find the time to finish up earlier.

[The Panther]

Does 'dry' mean no water? I seem to recall there are all races in this game, including the two water ones.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by The Panther:
Does 'dry' mean no water? I seem to recall there are all races in this game, including the two water ones.

Nope. Just means that the inland lakes aren't connected as neighbors to each other and to the ocean. Someone picked "Dry" as the easiest way to distinguish the revised .map setup; the original Karan gives simply incredibly advantages to the "wet" nations.

[Norfleet]

No, "dry" Karan is the Version of Karan where the inland lakes are not considered neighbors of the sea provinces that the rivers connect them to.

This has slight ramifications on the spread of dominion for a land nation across water, since the water-shortcut, while not accessible to land units, still affects spread of dominion. It also has an effect on inland water access for water nations.

The underlying issue that there is not enough water for both water nations remains unaddressed in both the original and "Dry" Versions of Karan.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
The underlying issue that there is not enough water for both water nations remains unaddressed in both the original and "Dry" Versions of Karan.

True - but general consensus is that Karan simply doesn't have enough room for both water nations. Then again - it probably doesn't have enough room for all 15 land nations either.

In a situation with all 17 nations, either Version has something of an advantage for the water nations - one of them is probably going to be one of the nations surviving well into the mid-to-late game, and one will die. That's a 50% chance, better than most of the nations will have.

Of course, Vegas has odds on whether it will be Atlantis or R'lyeh still standing, and those odds aren't 50/50.