Bloodless - Less micro game [running]

[Valerius]

I was browsing the llamaserver and came across a promising map. Primea has the right number of provinces (I think you wanted 20 per nation) and not too many ocean provinces either (assuming we won't have a water nation).

BTW, did you decide on a nation P3D?

[P3D]

Primea looks OK.
I chose Pythium.

[Valerius]

Doh. I should have checked out Primea more closely. The version with the fixed starts was semi randomized and some of the provinces have defense much tougher than standard indie setting. If we go for the non-semi randomized version we will probably have to choose starting locations. Also, there's something strange about the map - provinces 64 and 65 seem to be in the same position. Haven't checked out exactly why that is.

Given that, I thought I'd attach a map I created a while back when generating a batch of maps through RanDom. It only has 120 provinces but was not intended for ocean nations so only five are water. I think it's an interesting map. The screenshot shows proposed start locations. The water is not as muddy looking in the real map as on this JPEG.

If there's any interest in this map I'll upload it to the llamaserver for review.

[P3D]

I checked the Primea map file.
Four provinces are inactive (64, 65, 105, 153) so that should not be a problem.

We'll go with the basic Primea map as the semirandom one would give advantage to those familiar with the map. Fixed starts is an option.
If less than 7 players shows up, we should give your map a try.

[Valerius]

Ok, sounds good. I think it would be good to assign starting positions, though. I ran a test with 7 nations and while some had lots of space, another two had their capitols two provinces apart. The other strange thing is that two nations had their capitols in 64 and 65...

[P3D]

Looked at Primea again, and it won't be a good map. That big sea essentially blocks expansion to anyone in the NW and SW corners.

Made a random map with 150 provinces, 5-7 starting neighbors. There is a minimum of 3 provinces between the capitals.
Also added a connection across the sea.

Now we are waiting for Ossa to submit pretender.

[Valerius]

Ok, that will work. Maybe PM Ossa about his pretender?

[P3D]

He promised submitting it Monday.

[Valerius]

BTW, the game appears to be on autostart so better change the map from Primea.

[Valerius]

I guess we'll restart on the correct map?