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Just interested in some opinions here.
What do u feel the best map settings are for a 4 man game, 5-6 hours session.
What do u feel the best map settings are for a 4 man game, 5-6 hours session.
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The Balanced map was made with MP play in mind. You should have a metal and either horses or ivory within 6 squares of your start spot. Its basically a pangaea tweaked for even start areas. The other maps intended for MP play don't always provide that and they are flat maps(Inland Sea, Ring, Hub and Wheel). Lakes is pretty good also, better than pangaea for resource distribution, but some players don't like posibility of threats from just about any quarter from the start."The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."--Victor HugoComment
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Is mirror map just for duels or can it be used for 4 players?Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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Other than resources is the land itself ballanced (i.e. similiar access to rivers, coast etc) An does that mean if one person gets a resource (marble, stone) that everyone has access to that or a similiar one.Originally posted by Swissy
The Balanced map was made with MP play in mind. You should have a metal and either horses or ivory within 6 squares of your start spot. Its basically a pangaea tweaked for even start areas. The other maps intended for MP play don't always provide that and they are flat maps(Inland Sea, Ring, Hub and Wheel). Lakes is pretty good also, better than pangaea for resource distribution, but some players don't like posibility of threats from just about any quarter from the start.Comment
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Pretty sure that is duels only, but I will test it when I get home.Originally posted by OzzyKP
Is mirror map just for duels or can it be used for 4 players?
Besides I think I would like the maps to be a little bit different otherwise exploring 1/4 would essentially reveal the entire map.Comment
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I've just started a SP game on a balanced map - wasn't sure what it was. Is it always a pangea? I reckon balancing should be an option in the custom game setup rather than a map - that way you can balance resources no matter what the shape of the land. Not sure how that would work programming-wise... would prolly just have to be resources and not hills, rivers, desert etc....and I begin to understand that there are no new paths to track, because, look, there are already footprints on the moon. -- KerkorrelComment
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