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Old September 4th, 2007, 11:47 PM

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Well... I'm going to stop accepting new players on Thursday.
Some people have mentioned certain mod nations, but no one has actually requested to play one themselves. So...
Velusion - Caelum. MrSparkle - Pangaea. Janlm - substitute or... takes a mod nation. I'm pretty certain at least one nation won't show up to the start.

Hmm... perhaps we can do something about this. Give me a little while to think things over before we consider this player list final. These are just my brainfarts made flesh, not imperial dictates.
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Old September 5th, 2007, 07:52 PM
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LP -

Let me know approximately how many water/land provinces you would like, I'll work up a map and PM you with the link for your feed back.
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Old September 5th, 2007, 08:54 PM

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Hmm... In my single player games (1 on 1), I generally go with 15 provinces per player to prevent anyone being stuck too close together. But my experience with large games is non-existent. Recommendations would be nice. Otherwise, I'm shooting in the dark.

15x21 = 315 maybe too large?
10x21 = 210 maybe too crowded, especially with unfamiliar mod nations?

By magically pulling an arbitrary number out of my ***, lets go for 260 provinces. So thats about 17 players 15 provinces each, or 26 players 10 provinces each for the RMG.
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Old September 5th, 2007, 08:56 PM
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I like your original preference at 15 provinces per player if you're going for votes

All my games are big games and thats approximately what I use.
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I'd say somewhere between 13-15 per player is a good sweet spot to hit.

I tried 10 per player in Ludus, and that was a pretty tight fit IMHO. We had a lot of rushers.

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Old September 7th, 2007, 12:24 PM
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I kicked off the script to generate a bunch of map files this morning. Hopefully I'll have something to show LP by tonight/tomorrow.
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Guys I just got confirmed that I am going for a trip on 21st september and won't be back until the 24th september. I won't be able to do my turns during this trip. I think the best thing is to give up Tien Chi for someone else. I try to get in another game after the 24th.
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Well...It looks like I will have to bow out as well; I've a big project at work that will require some concentration.

I could probably be OK for a while, but the Sons of Odin deserve someone who can give them more focus.

Good luck guys.
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Here is a better map (IMHO):

http://67.66.187.69/dominions3/bagv2.png

IF that looks good I'll start to clean it up.
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Old September 10th, 2007, 01:40 AM

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That one's fine, but I'd like to run one by you, in a moment, for your opinion. It's probably too small though. In the end though, I'll trust your judgment with regards to maps, and let you go ahead and pick one of your choice.

If you have some suggested settings for generating a map, I'd love to hear them. What kind of settings are you using.

Map Width (1600)
Map Height (1200)
No. Prov. (350)
Sea Area (30%)
Mountain (35%)
Ruggedness (30)
River occ. (150)
Impassible mountains

Thumbnail links to half-size, lossy compressed version. In the end, I'll go with the experienced mappers choice, or yours, Velusion. But this is an example of the naval situation I like to see, albeit perhaps 5-10% too much water. Now, when I say like to see, its from my SP experiences, not multi.
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