World Map -unbalanced?

Endoperez · #1 February 14th, 2006, 05:17 AM

WHICH of the world maps are you talking about? Official Illwinter world map, satellite world map (or was that just Northern America?), the updated-graphics one, Neo-Pangaea...

castigated · #2 February 14th, 2006, 05:37 AM

also, i dont' mean to be a snob or anything, but shoudln't this thread be in the maps and mods forum?

NTJedi · #3 February 14th, 2006, 02:14 PM

Next time I'm home I'll check... my work keeps me moving and busy. It shouldn't be that difficult to find I believe less than 5 world maps exist.

Kristoffer O · #4 February 14th, 2006, 06:57 PM

My original design might very well have been unbalanced, but this was hopefully remedied a bit by double starting locations. Haven't played on it since just after the release of dom2 though.

> This makes it virtually impossible to play a legitimate multiplayer game without using fixed starting locations.

Perhaps the maker of that particular map (me or someone else) intended the map to be used with fixed strating locations and though that it was reasonably well balanced if used with fixed starts.

NTJedi · #5 February 14th, 2006, 08:03 PM

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Kristoffer O said:
My original design might very well have been unbalanced, but this was hopefully remedied a bit by double starting locations. Haven't played on it since just after the release of dom2 though.

> This makes it virtually impossible to play a legitimate multiplayer game without using fixed starting locations.

Perhaps the maker of that particular map (me or someone else) intended the map to be used with fixed strating locations and though that it was reasonably well balanced if used with fixed starts.

The map is still good for more challenging SP games... or new players looking for an easy map to use for learning.

Oversway · #6 February 14th, 2006, 08:25 PM

I'm confused, why not just use it with the fixed starting locations?

NTJedi · #7 February 14th, 2006, 09:19 PM

To start a map where every kingdom always starts in the same place quickly kills replay value of the map.

Cainehill · #8 February 14th, 2006, 09:35 PM

Doog Dog! Who would want to play the World map multiplayer more than once??? Nothing against Kristoffer's map - I guess a number of people like it for SP games, but I've found that most people, even those who said they loved huge maps, wound up hating MP games on World or Faerun.

If it isn't the level of micromanagement when multiple nations have 100+ provinces, then it's the way players drop out (often without even having the grace to go AI or notify of it). And if it isn't players dropping out, it's the bugs that crop up in the mid to late game on the huge maps, where you can no longer see what's in provinces despite having control of neighboring provinces or even spies in the province.

Not to mention, the game getting blown away when the hard unit limit is finally broken.