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[Zooko]

Ugh. I just spent way too much of my time trying to choose 10 starting locations on the Inland map so that it would be fair -- i.e. no starting nation is surrounded by enemies and cut off from his ally and so forth. It doesn't seem possible without a lot of work. Hm... I *could* write a computer program to do it...


*Or*, we could have (gulp) random starting locations, or, um, we could take turns choosing our starting location, or something else.

I think I'll go experiment with writing a computer program to do it...