MP: Map Choice - NEW QUESTION!!!!

[Arrian]

GS has a clear preference for our top map type choice (continents). I've got us doing a ranking now. We'll be quick about it.

Previewed.
Normal resources.

Standard size. It looks like we're all picking standard size #1, so no need to rank, right?

-Arrian

[Arrian]

GS's list of map types:

Continents
Archipelago
Pangea
Lakes
Terra

-Arrian

[Addled Platypus]

for futher clarification

Random first

Then-

Map type:
Custom Continents, random number: 5
Pangea, low sea level: 4
Lakes: 3
Archipelago: 2
Terra: 1

Size:
Normal: 4
Large: 3
Small: 2
random: 1

thank you UnOrthOdOx

[snoopy369]

It looks like Continents (Random, meaning not custom), Normal size, Previewed (random generated), and Normal resources are the general consensus, although several teams didn't vote on resources.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by snoopy369
It looks like Continents (Random, meaning not custom), Normal size, Previewed (random generated), and Normal resources are the general consensus, although several teams didn't vote on resources.

The Horde likes this.

We would like to see resources previewed as well.

Thank you

[snoopy369]

Any preview would include some insurance that all civs have SOME access to SOME resources. It wouldn't include a guarantee of any civ getting any particular resource... just that no civ is screwed out of all of the major resources.

[binTravkin]

Yeah, and please do not try to alleviate Industrial trait by a complete lack of stone and/or marble in surroundings!

Seriously, it is my concern as I would see it as disruption of game balance if trait bonuses get alleviated in such way.
Any trait bonus.

[DeepO]

binTravkin, knowing the admins, I feel safe to say that that shouldn't be a concern. OTOH, if everyone would have access to both Stone and Marble, IND would have been a relatively poor choice too, so that can't happen either.

It's difficult to balance the starting pos. Personally, I don't want access to all resources, but I don't want to see the situation which we ended up with in PTWDG: only horses accessible right away, and no strategics within our reach before we took someone else's starting ground.

DeepO

[Krill]

Uh, we had iron in PTWDG. Iron, Horses, Coal, Oil and Aluminium. What we don't want is a PTWDG2 situation where there is one horse and one iron on one continent that makes up roughly 3/7 of the worlds landmass

[DeepO]

Didn't our iron appear afterwards near Hurricane? We ended up with Uranium too, just never started with it. The one thing we never had was rubber...

DeepO

[Krill]

Nor SP...but I am pretty certain that the iron near Hurricane was always there, as I remember seeing a pic from sleepy in the "pictures thread" in the old private forum...

[DeepO]

SP... right... missing two critical resources in a row was fun... I even forgot about that one.

You're probably right on the iron, it's been too long ago.

DeepO

[Arrian]

The iron by Hurricane was always there. We were FINE for ancient-age resources. We ran into trouble later (saltpeter, rubber).

Anyway, in our moderators I trust.

-Arrian

[snoopy369]

Hmm. A review of the votes, plus some forum browsing, makes me wonder whether "custom continents-random" or "regular continents" is preferred, since neither really won straight out.

Can each team captain post in the next couple of days (it'll take me longer than that to get going, probably, due to RL issues, plus the color choice issue...), their preference:

* Custom Continents, Random #
* Continents (NOT custom)

Thanks!

[UnOrthOdOx]

In all honesty, I really don't know enough about the generator to tell you if there's much difference between the two.

We voted Custom random number specifically though. I believe regular continents is defined as "at least 2 continents" Technically also random number?