MP: ComfortZone - All MA Nations - Running

[Valerius]

@Cleveland: Hmm, good question. I was thinking of Glory of the Gods but we may already have too many land nations. With 18 land nations the average is 12.6 provinces per player; if we get the full 20 land nations it will be 11.3. I've never played on Alexander but that would give us one more province per land player.

In any case, I'm fine with the map you generated. I just think we should connect the SW landmass with the other landmass - that way we can also start a nation or two in this area. I also think that lone western province is too good a start position.

@hunt11: We can't create the game on the llamaserver until we decide on a map.

@BesucherXia: Fakeymcfake is correct, you can revise your pretender until the game starts.

[cleveland]

Originally Posted by hunt11

I've checked llamaserver and the game is not up yet

Llamaserver won't let me start a game without a map.

Xeitor is graciously trying to find the map from Fallacy, a past All-MA game which used a handcrafted map by Velusian that was specially designed for All-MA MP. Once it's found - assuming there are no objections - the llamaserver entry will be created.

I suppose I should have clarified my earlier post: I've created a map just in case we can't find anything better, which shouldn't be hard.

[JimMorrison]

To be honest, I think the map you generated looked great - IF it were a wrap-around (though I would tend to agree, large tracts of land without some sort of physical barriers, tends to be annoying, and give too much power to the highly mobile).

Anyway, I could do a jiffy job of making it wrap-around, or if you managed to get another that is as nice, but maybe with a bit higher amount of impassable mountains.

What I do with the mapgen, is I set it to Border Mountains, and then by hand I place actual Mountain terrain where the layout implies certain provinces are more mountainous than others, then clean up the connections here and there, and then assign potential start locations. If you wanted me to see what I can come up with, I could just do all the other work, then forward it to you for starts if you like (I generally just apply a heavy layer of No Start provinces, rather than set specific starts, myself).

[Xietor]

I have emailed the Fallacy map to Llamabeast. And I am trying to upload it now to llamaserver. But it is a new feature that I am not familiar with. Though you may have to be starting a game(which i am not) to upload a map.

So I am going to post the map and image file on this thread as well.


image http://www.mediafire.com/?wmbdw2ajiza

map file should be attached.

I like this map as their are 2 continents, with 2 access points to each. Fallacy had 22 players, and all 3 water races, though of course Oceania did not last long. Ryleh was a major power, and Atlantis was still alive when the game ended, so the map is not that bad for water.

[vfb]

I think we may need to request that llamabeast upload the map himself. Last time I heard, the upload feature was broken. The Fallacy map is pretty nice, I think.

[DonCorazon]

Has anyone played Glory of the Gods (multiplayer)? - it looks nice. By my calcs it would be about 13.3 provinces per land nation (assuming we stay at 18) and 15.6 per water nation.

Not sure if water nations ideally have a couple more provinces then land nations. Anyway, I am fine with Fallacy but thought I'd throw out a more visually appealing possibility.

[Valerius]

Glory of the Gods is a nice map and I think plays well (played one game on it). The problem is that it will be somewhat crowded even if we stop adding nations now. By my count it will average 12.6 provinces per land nation (227 provinces, 18 land nations).

While it doesn't look as nice as Glory of the Gods I really like the Fallacy map. I think I'd give that my vote.

[DonCorazon]

I meant to say "assuming we stay at 17" land nations (20-3) which is what my calc is based on, but I am happy to go with Fallacy.

Edit: While the first post reads 20 nations taken, I think it is actually 21, so your calc is right Valerius.

[rabelais]

since no one seems to want it I will take iron woods (is it THAT bad... i.e. machaka bad? )

Or if sign up is closed that's fine too. let me know.

[archaeolept]

the jots are good. machaka's not bad either