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Amhazair said:
Is there any particular reason you want to limit this game to 16 persons? The map is easily big enough to accomodate everyone willing to play imho.
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Well, at least by the province numbers, this is true. However, I am somewhat concerned about starting positions. In my limited experience on the Faerun map, once I go over 16 players, I always seem to see at least two positions that end up pretty near each other. I think this might be true because (perhaps) there are a lot of nostart provinces, and those nostart provinces are not evenly distributed.
So, I am willing to add another land position (or possibly more), if most players think that is a good idea, but please beware that this will increase the chances that two players end up unreasonably close, or one or more players get screwed in their startup.
I'll have another post shortly where I'll comment on the Faerun map and startup positions, as there may be some partial fixes I can do in editing the map. Bottom line, I think that on the Faerun map you can't look at provinces/player alone, and I suspect the risk of player(s) getting short changed goes up rapidly as we increase above 16.
Edit: Oh yeah, one more thing - I do think it is unwise to add a 3d sea position, the sea players get screwed even when you just look at the # of sea provinces per sea player, in this case.
On starting positions and # of players
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