Map idea

Starshine_Monarch · #1 June 28th, 2007, 12:54 PM

Sounds cool. Maybe you could add something that would make it better to have in the late game? Like maybe it has a unique site that can give you a buttload of gems? I suppose you can balance it out by not allowing anyone to go there for maybe a year or two? You know, give them time to gain experience and kit out their fighters. Or maybe put a better independent champion there, like a giant or even an indie pretender if there's something really nice there.

Saulot · #2 June 28th, 2007, 02:53 PM

It's a very intriguing idea worthy of further consideration.

Something to think about: In a two player game, it may be possible where one player with a Dom10 awake pretender may dominion kill another with a weak dominion through the arena province.

Sombre · #3 June 28th, 2007, 04:01 PM

That's a good point about the dominion kill. Hard to see how that could easily be dealt with. Could add 'buffer' provinces as a kind of walkway into the arena, then connect people to those, but that's getting sort of complex.

As for the late game - you could make the house rule that anyone who held it for a certain number of turns (more than 3 maybe) had to be paid a tribute of some sort by all players, each turn until defeated. Or you could play a cumulative victory points game and make the province a worthwhile one in terms of VP.

paradoxharbinger · #4 June 28th, 2007, 04:18 PM

maybe instead of connecting the arena to the home provinces, put it in the center of the map?

Sombre · #5 June 28th, 2007, 04:21 PM

But how are people going to get to it? The whole point is that everyone can participate in a deathmatch there. If it's just in the middle of the map it's like any other high value king of the hill type province.

lch · #6 June 28th, 2007, 04:37 PM

Can you create a site that allows the one it enters to teleport? Then you can place one of these sites into each capital, and one in the arena, and don't have the dominion problem. The players must be reminded that they mustn't use the teleport sites for anything else, of course.

Juzza · #7 June 28th, 2007, 07:02 PM

you've got a problem of people casting spells on the province to say decrease income or increase say cold, so that a cold blood will be beaten out of hand.

and for your connect issues just make it connected to the capital, since theres no time limit you can send your fighting commanders to the capital to compeat, you can just have it in the middle of the map, only connected to the capitals.