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Old March 5th, 2010, 11:23 AM

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What would the point be of my fighting Mictlan? Alone, I would lose. Agartha cannot help, it's busy. If Caelum goes AI, Ermor will eventually reach my borders and be a very bad neighbor. My only hope is to keep growing in power so I don't fall too far behind. Marignon is also growing very powerful, I don't think Mictlan can take on the whole world.
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Old March 5th, 2010, 02:40 PM

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I will put Pythium under IA.

You can take my provinces. NAPs broken.

See you and good luck.
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Old March 5th, 2010, 04:06 PM
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The problem is that just like in Doomsday4, the map is STILL too large for such a low number of people. Sure, there's 227 land provinces, but there's also 47 sea provinces. That leads to 27,4 provinces per player in a perfect world, which still is quite a bit too much, especially in a high gold/resource game.

But instead of a perfect situation we got the same we got in the earlier game. One or two people getting (near-)perfect starts with lots and lots of indies around 'em rather than other players while most others were clumped together like nobody's business, leading to either quite early wars or stunted growth.

In my opinion, having seen this happen with even less people and now 10, this map would need like twice the people to work with the settings we're running with. 300% everything is a bit excessive when there's a chance that someone'll get like 50+ provinces from INDIES alone. Should've had a 150 province map at most.
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Old March 5th, 2010, 04:21 PM

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Also it's an unbalanced map. An amphibious nation starting in the southwest will kill on Glory. Mictlan should start in the southeast, or at least have R'lyeh starting in the center ocean. Perhaps R'yleh in the central ocean, Mictlan in the far southeast, Ermor where it started, Tien Ch'i starting just north of where it did, Agartha starting just north of where it did, Marignon starting in the far southeast, Pangaea starting in the far south, and Man moving to where Mictlan started.

Still, I don't think it's over. Tien Ch'i is looking forward to a glorious charge East and a last stand against the nihilist undead empire and anyone else who may attack us.
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Old March 5th, 2010, 05:55 PM

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I would have to agree that the map was much too big for the number of players and settings. My next war (after agartha) will probably require lots and lots of (micro)managment regardless of who it will be against.
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Old March 5th, 2010, 05:58 PM

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I actually enjoy the huge size. Lots of micro yes, but ridiculous power.

However, the huge size kind of reduces the effect of the very difficult research. I'm not too far behind how I would be in a normal game.
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I may not get my turn in today. COuld I ask for a 24-hour extension? Also, would we be ok with moving to 48-hour deadlines, as micro is starting to increase on our 45+-province empires?
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I may not get my turn in today. COuld I ask for a 24-hour extension? Also, would we be ok with moving to 48-hour deadlines, as micro is starting to increase on our 45+-province empires?
Trying to figure out how to feed that horde of yours?
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I may not get my turn in today. COuld I ask for a 24-hour extension? Also, would we be ok with moving to 48-hour deadlines, as micro is starting to increase on our 45+-province empires?
Trying to figure out how to feed that horde of yours?
Starving archers can beat the AI and shoot down undead. My troop movements take like 10 minutes. I'm recruiting something like 30 mages a turn, forging and site-searching. That takes the time.
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Old March 16th, 2010, 05:49 PM
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For some reason I'm not getting my turn. I even requested a resend, but nothing has come my way as of yet.

EDIT: Now I got it. I think my email thingie was being a bit overzealous, but now it's fixed.

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