I really don't play RND games at all, but this discussion caught my eye.
DonCorazon;
Ditto very much on all of your points. I basically just skip all games with over 12 players.
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Originally Posted by WraithLord
Getting stuck with crappy, significantly weaker, nation in a RAND game is not fun. You know from the starters the game holds 0 promise for you. It's not fun the first time it happens, less fun the 2nd and gets worse for me - having had a bad luck streak with RAND nation assignment. When skill level is homogeneous there's no way to compensate for a weak nation. The nation selection element needs to be addressed.
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Abot random nation selection, Gregstrom made a fine game sometime ago with quite good random nation selection. It went like this;
Each player, upon sign up, selects a nation. Once all players have selected a nation, the players are assigned RND nations from all of the nations selected by players.
Basically you likely end up with all weak nations or all strong nations depending on the first pick, but with healthy variation.
Re: Land Rand (pbem)
Hybrid Mode
