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[RexMundi]

I don't really wanna host again right now, but I'd be up for this throne vanilla-y game proposed

[chaoticag]

Yeah, not hosting for similar reasons.

[Jilladilla]

I would probably forget that I was hosting. I can be scatterbrained like that sometimes....

[ThtblovesDF]

I think I'll give hosting a chance. Thoughts on event rarity and score graphs?

I'd go for 6 or 8 players,

"Easy" research.

Roughly half lvl 3 and half lvl 2 thrones, when in doubt, 1 more lvl 3 throne.

No idea about the map either, some seperating features would be nice, like Big Black Peaks

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[chaoticag]

Some spells reveal score graphs, as you realized before, but yeah, I don't mind score graphs being on personally though others may take issue. It also would make eyes of god a bit less powerful since you can't be an information broker in terms of who is on top. Event rarity should be common since we'd be doing it play by mail. Rare is better for blitzes.

[Jilladilla]

If we're doing a standard, mostly (or completely) vanilla match, then I request a map with at least 1 cave on it. You know, for those nations that like caves a lot. Although if we're doing EA, I would strongly recommend against picking a map with a massive cave network, EA Agartha can kinda go nuts with that if they also get sufficient cashflow...

[chaoticag]

Yeah, games should have some caves to be fair as a lot of spells work off of caves. Then you have Xibalba and Agartha. Xibalba would be at quite a disadvantage without much underground stuff I think.

[ThtblovesDF]

Sure, again, I have no expierence or preference for certain maps.

Are caves always dark, like deep-deep-oceans?

[Jilladilla]

Are caves always dark, like deep-deep-oceans?

Yup, -3 darkness penalty, of course there's a bunch of rituals that need to be cast in a cave to work, also Earthquake is SCARY in caves (obviously), not to mention that both Agartha and Xibalba REALLY like cave provinces. Well, Agartha does anyway (earlier ages moreso than later), I've never really played Xibalba so I'm gonna go with chaoticag's judgement on that.

[francesprince]

I like the modern graphics.

[Shadowlord]

I've been meaning to make a new EA Xibalban pretender, but for the record, EA Xibalba doesn't preferentially start in caves like Agartha does.

[E. Albright]

Well, they do, actually, but the problem is they also start preferentially in forests, and forests wins. That\s an issue as old as they are, and I'm surprised it still hasn't been fixed. The devs definitely know about it, though.

[Shadowlord]

Makes sense. I was going by experience, which was "they never start in caves" - so I suppose if a map had no forests, but did have caves...

[Frumple]

That'd be pretty easy to test, for what it's worth, I do believe. Fairly sure it's not much of a problem to gen up a random map with no forests and >=1 caves. Certainly you can do one with lots and lots of caves, heh. I've actually got a couple laying that's... something like 75%+ cave provinces. Sometimes you want to fight in the shade, y'know?

[Karlito]

The default mapgen tools don't let you set a forest percentage, but it's still not too much work to edit those out.