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llamabeast said:
You could use a random map. 60 provinces maybe. Nothing wrong with a random map. I've had a lot of fun with 4-player games on Gandalf's server, on 50 province random maps. You can also place the starting positions by hand to make it a bit less, er, random.
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I read thru the thread. Thank you for doing this. It should help fill a need. Some bits and pieces I can add...
On my server: for my "blitz" games (2 to 4 players on 50 prov) Early age games fill up fastest, then middle age. Late age seems the slowest to fill up and start. I sometimes put off starting new low age games just to push players into the late age that has been waiting for players. The games average around 60 turns so beware of starting too many at once or you might fill the server and not be able to start new ones for a month or so
The mid-range games Ive done are very popular (8-15 players on a 200 prov). They fill up fast but they tend to last longer. Im limited on how many of those I can run as direct-connect games but PbEM should avoid that problem. I might recommend that you do not use quickhost on large games. Set it for a specific time that it will host so you can make sure that they do not try to host at the same time and crash the server.
Wrap-maps are a need. We do have a map generator now that can create wrappable maps. If you want to keep games always available then you might want to generate a bunch of those ahead of time to make sure they are playable.
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