Eurasia

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Stavis_L

Just set the big wastelands to no-starts.

As far as why you don't want a big land province, it's because of the mobility advantage it gives; instead of being a hindrance to travel, that big waste province would now become a superhighway.

Considering the province separations are made on todays borders and seem quite arbitrary to me and not linked to the underlying geography, I feel nonplused by this argument. Why cut England from Scotland and not England from Wales for instance?
In particular, the argument is moot if you look at Arabia: Merge all the peninsula in one province doesn't change its connectivity much because there's already a huge province which goes from least to west.

[sevenwarlocks]

Originally Posted by LDiCesare

In particular, the argument is moot if you look at Arabia: Merge all the peninsula in one province doesn't change its connectivity much because there's already a huge province which goes from least to west.

It is true enough that connections are a bit arbitrary, and that the visual size of a provence has no impact on game mechanics. Yet turning most of North Africa into a single provence would run counter to my purpose.

Well, two purposes:

- Making sure that the African section of the map remains an important power center on which players can get a good fair start.

- Making it feel like Africa in an RP sense I.E., no travelling from Morocco to Somalia in one turn, and this includes making deserts behave distinctly from empty plains in a way that makes sense from an rp and game mechanics standpoint.

I think Sombre has the right idea, though I don't know exactly what sites can be added. I'll play around with it.