[PBEM game] Entwined Destiny (Over)

[Alneyan]

I have finished working on the map now, and it is more crowded than I would have expected. All teams start within three provinces (by the shortest path) of at least three other teams, as I could simply not make it work with a minimal distance of four provinces between everyone.

Teammates start right to each other, but the location of the other teams will be unknown (meaning the .map file will not be sent to the players).

[Tuidjy]

Right next to each other? Not even a province in between capitals? Poor Mictlan.

Yvelina and I anticipated that there would be a problem and made sure our
domains are matched. I hope no one else did :-)

[Alneyan]

I think Mictlan is fine, so long as they have the same Dominion value as the other capital. At least, a Dominion 1 Mictlan kept Dominion alive against its Dominion 1 ally.

It could be a problem however, so I guess I will have to figure out how to make it so there is one province between the two capitals.

[Alneyan]

On second thoughts, and after having looked at the map more closely (praised be Illwinter for the Eyes of God spell!), it looks like putting one province between the two capitals should not be so difficult.

Would it be enough to avoid having one teammate kill the other because of Dominion?

[alexti]

I would suggest to spread out capitals more or less evenly. Alliances would effect positions only by making sure that everybody's ally is one of his neighbours

[Alneyan]

I am not sure I like the idea of spreading capitals around: there will still be not that much room where to put capitals, and I think some nations would start with fewer neighbours (in those slightly harder to travel places) than the others.

[Aku]

If inland is a pain in the *** maybe we should use theatre of war or any other bigger map maybe.