SP dominion kills on turn 1

[llamabeast]

Sounds like a map issue to me.

Mods such as CBM would have no effect on this issue.

[Snacktime]

Thanks Llama - I think you're right. I don't know enough about custom maps to know why they would create that issue, I'll just avoid maps where it happens at least for SP.

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by Snacktime

Still, pretty asinine and I'm still surprised how much I'm seeing it happen.

You can't blame the game if you are using maps that have a specified maximum number of nations, and then trying to start a game with more than the maximum. As that's not the fault of the game, the map, or the map designer/editor. As all of those things are working as designed, and your problem is being caused entirely user error.

[dojango]

Are they water nations that are getting eliminated? If the map only has room for 1 water nation, the others will get eliminated on the next turn. I see it a lot on maps like shadowshore, which only has 1 water start position.

[Snacktime]

Calahan - that's fair enough, but some maps apparently have a max number of nation starts without any way for this idiot user to see that number.

I mean if the map actually has a hard max number of nations and the game will actually be broken if you use more than that number, why doesn't the game stop me from starting a game with more than that number? Still user error in your mind?

In any case I still don't understand why starting 8 nations on a map designed for say 7 would lead 3 of them to be killed by dominion on turn 2.

[Gandalf Parker]

Most maps do have a recommended number of players for that map in the maps description.

The game doesnt actually know that it cant complete the locations until it actually tries to, which is after you select nations.

If you want to know why it happened, turn on debug and look. I think you would be surprised as how much effort the game went thru before it gave up.