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• Frank Trollman: Sauromatia
• Zinegata: Ulm
• Angelfromanotherpin: Tien Chi
• Winnah: Pangaea
• Gnosticism Is A Hoot: Fomoria
• Ancient History: Caelum
• Ikeren: Hinnom
• K: Lanka
• DrPraetor: Abysia

Depending on how many people sign up, we'll choose an appropriate map or make a new one.

• Starting Sites 1
  Indie Strength 5
  Special Sites 50
  Money 100
  Resource 100
  Supply 100
  Common Events
  Score Graphs Enabled
  Hall of Fame 15
  Standard Research
  Victory Points
  Renaming is Allowed

Is it unreasonable for me to try to play 3 early-games at once, working on the premise that by the 20-30 minute midgame turns I'll be eliminated from at least one game?

Oh man, Early Era. This'll be fun.

Fomoria, Kailasa, Abysia

I'm hip. Caelum, Tir na n'Og, Hinnom.

Ikeren wrote:Is it unreasonable for me to try to play 3 early-games at once, working on the premise that by the 20-30 minute midgame turns I'll be eliminated from at least one game?

You can do it!
(the 8? games I am in, might be a little to much)

Let's say EA Hinnom, EA Niefelheim, EA Lanka in that order, then.

Lanka, Sauromatia, Mictlan

Pending final confirmation, I'm game.

Would like Ulm, Arco, or Ermor (or maybe Marveni. I don't think anyone will want these pretty sucky nations anyway). I'll try not to die too quickly .

That gives us 8 players, and zero sea power. So we'd be looking for a map with no more than 120 and no fewer than 80 land provinces. Number of sea provinces is not much of a concern. If no one has any suggestions, I'll just make one.

So far, no one has elected to pick the same first choice, so everyone gets their first choice:

• Frank Trollman: Sauromatia
  Zinegata: Ulm
  Angelfromanotherpin: Tien Chi
  Winnah: Pangaea
  Gnosticism Is A Hoot: Fomoria
  Ancient History: Caelum
  Ikeren: Hinnom
  K: Lanka

That's 3 human positions, 2 giant positions, 2 beastman positions and Caelum which plays kind of like a human position but aren't literally humans.

-Username17

Sounds good. Nom nom nom.

Oh, have you guys started? If not, sign me up as EA Abysia. Also I enjoy making life difficult for people who volunteer to make maps. Huzzah!

We haven't started, no. So sure, Abysia it is. That brings us to effectively 3 Giant factions. And we'll need a map in the 90-135 land province range.

-Username17

Land of Legends. 135 land provinces.

There are a few 'Harbour' provinces, marked with an anchor, that allow travel to the central island, or from the central island to the closest harbour.

Island provinces have a higher magic freq.

Provinces marked with a town or city have a higher population.



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That would work fine. Alternately, I could make one. For example: I could make a dominions map out of a random fantasy game map I found online (I think this might be Dragon Age):

-Username17

Would like to see this map anyway.
Only concern is, those water provinces look huge...

That map looks pretty good. Let me know if I can provide some assistance with the .map file, if you decide to go ahead with creating a map. Checking adjacent provinces are where they are supposed to be, ensuring start locations are fairly evenly distributed, that sort of thing.

That's cool stuff.

The Thedas Map is up and working. It has 100 land provinces and 13 sea provinces. Every starting position can reach at least 5 and no more than 6 provinces, and no starting position is closer than 3 provinces from any other starting position.

-Username17

Looks good. VP conditions I assume? Can they be seen easily on the map?

That was quick. Thanks for taking the time to create the map.

Zinegata wrote:Looks good. VP conditions I assume? Can they be seen easily on the map?

The map is high resolution. If you pull back to see the whole map, the crowns are extremely small. Further, the mountains on the West end of the map are similar in color to the crowns, making the crown that will appear in province 33 hard to see.

I left the start positions unnamed, so your capital will be named "Ulm" wherever it actually is on the map. The rest of the provinces will be named after something written on them.

-Username17

Righto, that's okay. Shall we start?

Can do, but I need some way to get the map files to people. It's surprisingly difficult because the .tga is bigger than 20 megs.

-Username17

FrankTrollman wrote:Can do, but I need some way to get the map files to people. It's surprisingly difficult because the .tga is bigger than 20 megs.

-Username17

I can host it, if you need. PM me for that (though I won't be back on until ~23:00z)

I could put it up on Dropbox, but it'll probably just be easier for me to drop the resolution and get it under the magic 20 megs. That'll make the VP crowns bigger too, so it's probably win/win. I'll do that after surgery tomorrow.

-Username17