Popularity of the Faerun Map?

[NTJedi]

Personally I always prefer the x-large maps. Also according to Gandalf the x-large maps are the most popular downloads from his website... no opinions just facts. The larger the maps the more time players have to develop their empire and the larger the battles can be.
The starting locations of some players did provide a large advantage... but it's still a great map for the overall content. The best way the map can be improved is if the developers add a method/command where independents can be placed on patrolling. Then an army can be on the outside and inside of a castle.

[JJ_Colorado]

a 324 province map sounds good to me, better than the current size which seems too large even though i generally like large maps.

I'm about to play a game on the Faerun map and am disappointed that there are problems w/ it but thanks for making it anyway.

John

[Mardagg]

I think a smaller Version of the current Faerun Map with more balanced starting position would be very good.
Personally,I think that around 300 provinces fit perfect for an epic Multiplayer battle as the upper maximum limit,whereas +400 are just one thing:too much.
For single player games,I actually do like the old Faerun map(just startetd an interesting game there) btw.

[PvK]

I think it's a great map. Beautiful and huge, but still with lots of detail everywhere. There is an appeal to the enormous number of provinces, even though it poses some insane time challenges for gameplay. Some people like enormous monster games, and this provides. There are of course also balance issues, and an advantage for people who know the map in advance versus those who are unfamiliar with it.

I haven't seen the new Version, so it's hard to know which I would prefer. They sound like they both offer different things, but the newer one is more refined and balanced. The larger one will probably still have its appeal thanks to sheer enormousness. Also I wonder how the black stars for flags will will look. Part of the appeal of the map is that it's very nice to look at, and clarity at the expense of black stars all over the place might be something I'd like to be able to turn off. If it's the same image and pixel size, though (is it??), players could just use the un-starred TGA.

PvK

[Cohen]

I'd like a lot Faerun map because it's huge.
I love huge games where is needed a long term planning of strategy.
I love too the Forgotten Realms world since I'm a D&D/AD&D player.

I love to know that in the map there're special locations with good magic sites or with a strategical importance, more than mere common provinces.

I'm sad to hear Faerun with less provinces.

However the current Faerun has some limits, while I like a lot starting position fixed in those sort of scenario map, some Nations start too close to them (like Marignon-Pythium) and other like Abysya (my preferred) started with 4 neighbouring land provinces, 3 of them with Indies set by map, very strong, and very hard to conquer, and 3 out of 4 were 1waste-2spawmps. And the waste was the free one.

I hope in better balance for sure, and I'd like to modify the current Faerun map if the map creator (Edi) allows me to do that.

[NTJedi]

I currently recommend playing the old Faerun map with starting locations disabled. Then all players are randomly placed onto the map.

Hopefully we will see new maps with 400 or more provinces in the future too! The bigger the maps the bigger the battles.

[ July 07, 2004, 16:36: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[BouquetOfFlowers]

I am currently playing as C'Tis Desert Tombs on the Faerun map and am enjoying it quite a bit. It's the first time I will finish out the research tree while there is still significant opposition left on the map, so I get to try out lots of cool stuff, like Wish. The fact that there are neat special sites scattered around the map (some of them very tough) has made things interesting throughout. It took me many turns and three castle storming attempts to finally take over the City of Shadows right near the C'Tis starting position. When I finally killed Horus Ra with a lucky Disintegrate it was a very proud moment.
I would love to have an updated Version of the big map for the next time I want to try out an epic game. A smaller Version would be cool, too, but I am not as excited about that because, as has been said earlier, there are other well done small maps, but not really any other large maps with as much effort put into them.