[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Pocus:
the 'bottlenecking' preference is rather surprising. It reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic maps where in essence you have the maps separated in tiny regions, each being closed by a mountain or a big pack of monsters. It gaves a definite puzzle approach to the scenario (do the right thing in the right order). Is this that which would be of interest to some of us?

Hmmm a few "campaign" storyline maps would be fun. You mean like that?

Im just guessing but I think the preference for bottlenecks is the preference for strategically important locations you can concentrate on. I generate the same type of thing on my random maps by having some provinces be too strong to be taken out until very late in the game so that a bottleneck is created by a weak province between two super-strong ones. Some consider water to create a temporary useable bottleneck. Others prefer permanent bottlenecks created by mountains.

And then there was the old idea of lots of seperated areas and designating a particular pre-found magic site to represent teleport gates (mapping such sites to provinces and setting up #neighbor to other such sites)

I think the jump from some bottlenecks to many and skipping the one-per-player is because the one-per-player maps would be chess-board. Too fair and balanced. There is a need for some like that but not a lot. Mostly for the later tournament style games that pop up when people are ready to test their favorite strategy against others with as little random element as possible (IMHO)

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[ October 25, 2003, 15:10: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]