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[Karlito]

Round 11 had 14.7 land provinces/land nation. Roaring Rhinos(the larger) would have 16.9 land provinces/nation. If you want a significantly larger map Riverlands is probably more to your liking.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I just picked 2 that had been mentioned before. If a bigger map is desired then Riverlands would indeed be what you desire so I will put you down for that gman, though that does mean we have a 3 way tie at the moment.

[gman8181]

Well, while I would prefer the larger map, I don't want to put things on hold either.  If the tie isn't broken relatively soon, you can just put my vote down for the second largest map.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I was hoping for a couple more people to pop in before I finalized which map we would be using. After all we will all have to be playing on it.

Edit: the Riverlands map seems fun though I am slightly wary of the water in it. If no one else chimes in by tomorrow on the subject I think thats what we will go with.

[ThtblovesDF]

Riverlands it is then, I vote for it.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Yes Riverlands it will be but we will either need to fix the one on the page Karlito linked to or find a good version (there seems to be a few in lama's map viewer) as the one in the page is quite bad. Most erroneous is that at least one of the provinces is actually a double province because there is 2 pixels of white. Its actually kind of interesting how it handles it, be neat to make a map abusing it someday.

[Waterplouf]

Yeah I feel the same as Gman, I ended up really close to 3 people in round 11 and hadn't the place to maneuver against niefelheim. I am also voting for riverlands, or at least roaring rhinos.

[ThtblovesDF]

I think I'll go somewhat low on dominion level, so I don't get ganged up on by people worrying about there population - still peaceful nature lads all over the place here, gonna have to try some things in singleplayer...

[Karlito]

I noticed that almost all the Riverlands maps currently on the map browser have a modification that turns one of the islands into deep sea suitable for a water nation. If we do use Riverlands (it seems like the most popular map so far) it should be based off this version, which is as close to the original as I could find with all the map errors fixed. All we'd have to do is mark out 10 start locations and upload it to the map browser. It does have a few provinces that are designated as having many magic sites, and if we decide to leave them in I can't guarantee it'll be as balanced.

EDIT: There's a few other oddities, like one province being designated as a cave, but they're all easy to fix.

[moghopper]

I think I'll go somewhat low on dominion level, so I don't get ganged up on by people worrying about there population - still peaceful nature lads all over the place here, gonna have to try some things in singleplayer...

Out of all the nations playing, its you and Ulm that worry me the most....

[ThtblovesDF]

Wait, what does ulm do?

Anyway, this is only my 2end MP game and... I am doing okay in my first one, for... various reasons, mostly that... I won a war by not fighting? Like, basically spamming animals and monster-boar won me a gold-victory, then a dom-kill followed, sort off.

[gman8181]

I think I'll go somewhat low on dominion level, so I don't get ganged up on by people worrying about there population - still peaceful nature lads all over the place here, gonna have to try some things in singleplayer...

I believe your dominion is only deadly if you cast that one spell (Carrion Woods I think). Otherwise it's as harmless as anyone else's.  I'd thus reccomend a high dominion just in case you later decide you want to cast the spell.  Dom 8 should probably do it.

Myself, I almost always go for a full 10 dominion because my strategies so often work well with it.  Not to mention Dom kills are pretty effective if used right.

Out of all the nations playing, its you and Ulm that worry me the most....

Why?  Endymion looks to be the strongest player in round 11 and I can't really speak for round 10 which I'm just a recent replacement in.  What's so threatening about Pangea and Ulm?

[moghopper]

That mostly depends on how well he can leverage Arco's strengths. Since that's an unknown factor I'm simply not going to worry about it until I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

Pangea and Ulm on the other hand are nations whose strengths I know, and I know how deadly they can be if left alone too long...

[Karlito]

I think I'll go somewhat low on dominion level, so I don't get ganged up on by people worrying about there population - still peaceful nature lads all over the place here, gonna have to try some things in singleplayer...

I believe your dominion is only deadly if you cast that one spell (Carrion Woods I think). Otherwise it's as harmless as anyone else's.  I'd thus reccomend a high dominion just in case you later decide you want to cast the spell.  Dom 8 should probably do it.

Carrion Woods is interesting because it actually incentivizes low dominion to some extent. Pop-kill increases with dominion score, but doesn't increase the amount of freespawn, though freespawn is improved by growth scales and the presence of temples.

EDIT:Anyway, here's my submission for the map we should use. It's based on that corrected Rverlands above, but I stripped out the extra magic sites and put 10 start locations fairly evenly around the map. It's probably not super well balanced, but I think it'll do. Look it over. State your (dis)approval. Let's get this show on the road.

[gman8181]

I think it could be argued that any nation can become deadly if left alone for too long.  If anything this would apply moreso to those nations who have acess to plentiful and powerful mages.  That doesn't really describe LA Ulm, whose mages would be rather pathetic if it weren't for forge bonuses and the national iron blizzard evocation.  Sure Ulm can use vampires but is that really such a great advantage in itself?  Any nation can get vampires.  Hell, Ulm doesn't even have mages capable of summoning them, it requires a pretender with the appropriate paths.