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[Jilladilla]

As long as I get a cave for my capital I'm happy. Yes that is the entirety of my 2 cents on map selection. I'm not very picky.

[Karlito]

Well, I went and actually reviewed the map. The cave complex has a lot more connections to the surface than I initially realized, so that got rid of my biggest issue with it. I think it will serve.

[EnigmaticHat]

Alright, I'll add starts, you guys design pretenders.

[EnigmaticHat]

Ok, what do you guys think of these starts?



My standards were: everyone gets preferred terrain type if I'm aware of it (couldn't find a list anywhere), everyone gets at least 4 bordering provinces, teams start close to each other, no one not on R'lyeh's team starts on a coast, and all enemies are at least 5 provinces away from each other going by land.  The only times that last rule was broken is Jomon and Pangaea are only 4 provinces away from each other and C'tis and Midgard are only 4 provinces away from each other.  Still, that's only one close enemy per team.  Also potentially objectionable is that Pangaea is the closest on their team to two different enemies but that's the logical result of being Agartha's ally IMO.

[Karlito]

Well, Jomon and Arcosephale are also 4 provinces distant, but I dunno if there's a better spot so we can deal.

[EnigmaticHat]

Oh... true.  So the only people who actually are five provinces away are Mictlan and Pangaea.

[Karlito]

Any of you have feelings about game settings? I like the usually multiplayer choices of expanded hall of fame and common events, and a bumped up magic site frequency is a pretty common preference in the Bay12 matches.

And then what about thrones? Given the size of the map we could have some distribution of 8 or 9 thrones, maybe.

[EnigmaticHat]

That all sounds good.  No story events, I was thinking 55 site occurrence because we'll all have low starting gem income and let's face it finding sites is just more fun than not finding sites.

Does anyone have a specific change they want made to the starting positions or a specific thing (or things) they think is unfair?  Because if not... I think we can start.

[EnigmaticHat]

Ok, I got randomly busy today and yesterday but I will post the game and the map soonish.

[Karlito]

So, uh, how soon is soonish exactly?

[EnigmaticHat]

As soon as this stupid thing stops giving me a "bad neighbor" error.  So like an hour.

Edit: Map works, making game

[EnigmaticHat]

Ok I'd like to apologize for the delay.  Some things came up in real life and I was too distracted to think about this; objectively though I did have the time.  So, sorry.

Anyway, this link should take you to the map with the custom starts, put it in your map folder.  The game is up, Bay12Dom416.  Be sure to work with your teammate in making your pretender so there are no unwelcome surprises.

[Karlito]

Great! I'll give myself until this evening to continue thinking of stupid pretender names, and then put up a submission. Everyone else has been silent in the thread the last week, but I guess I'll trust that they're following along.

[AlStar]

Ok I'd like to apologize for the delay.  Some things came up in real life and I was too distracted to think about this; objectively though I did have the time.  So, sorry.

Anyway, this link should take you to the map with the custom starts, put it in your map folder.  The game is up, Bay12Dom16.  Be sure to work with your teammate in making your pretender so there are no unwelcome surprises.

The game is actually Bay12Dom416, as llamaserver just yelled at me about.

[EnigmaticHat]

That would be what I meant to type.