Aquatic or land: take two

[Maniac]

The previous poll concerning aquatic options ended in a near fifty-fifty result. So no matter if we go fully land or aquatic, half of the participants is going to be disappointed. Therefore I was thinking of a compromis proposal: how about if most factions (we one of them) start on land, but we all have the aquatic ability (making sea bases not worthless compared to land bases). That would be the best guarantee to have both the sea and land aspects of the game well represented.

What do you think about this?

[Hercules]

Still prefer aquatic and 70% - 90% ocean.
It would be like a contest for control off the seas in the 18th/19th century but with modern vessels and retarded airpower ( maybe the odd balloon).

[Corellion]

Compromise, on the condition that the amount of land is low (30-10%)

[Method]

full aquatic. no land. at all. if there's even a little, the AI will just raise it. land will just give us another advantage - boreholes.

[Hercules]

full aquatic. no land. at all. if there's even a little, the AI will just raise it. land will just give us another advantage
- boreholes.

Never thought of that. I didn't think you could have 100% Aquatic

[Method]

Originally posted by Hercules


Never thought of that. I didn't think you could have 100% Aquatic

in regular SMAC you can't, because aquatic factions only exist in SMAX. I tried an all aquatic game in regular SMAC, and i ended up having to start all factios on 1 tile of land, otherwise everyone dies in 2101

[jtsisyoda]

I voted for compromise, but wish to retract my vote and abstain (for now). Method's posts have me on the fence.

[GeneralTacticus]

I say compromise.

[Vander]

Compromise
I like the idea of an aquatic battle, but not the idea of having a rather dull map to work with. The little terrain adds another twist to the game (with boreholes and such)

[Lemmy]

Compromise with very little land.
All aquatic just makes a boring map

[Phenix]

Compromise, but with very small islands, like only place for 1-2 cities per continent...

[Snowflake]

Compromise. I like the idea of sparsed small land and retarded airpower.

[Mark123jansen]

all aquatic with little land, such as strings of island, or long narrow islands dividing the map into a few distinct oceans, with "panamacanal" sites where cities can be built to function as canals between seas

[foolish_icarus]

compromise, but either all factions should start on land or all in the water, not some in each

[Maniac]

The frequency of comments seems to slow down. Would a good representative summary be:

All factions will be aquatic.
We should have 70 to 90% ocean. (sorry Method)
Strings of long narrow islands dividing the map into a few distinct oceans, with "panamacanal" sites where cities can be built to function as canals between seas.

compromise, but either all factions should start on land or all in the water, not some in each

Is this opinion shared by a majority? Other possibilities could for example be that each faction starts with both a land CP and a sea CP.

What does "retarded air power" mean btw?