Mother Nature is pissed

[NTJedi]

Gandalf Parker said:
Heehee. You should have seen all the commands we tested and took out. Not to mention the extensive back and forth changes to reset the caps to the new limits such as the 1500 provinces. And of course everytime you changed one thing it seemed to affect every other thing. SLAP.

But it was fun. I was the first person to get to play in mega-games. At least the server commands seemed to get a complete testing. Those were considered a hotter priority.

How I wish #startspell wasn't damaged and lost. #god only works for the starting capital. one-way provinces would have really opened doors for some interesting maps. Anyways I'll stop daydreaming.

Gandalf Parker said:
Hmmm I rarely have that problem. It seemed to me that the food boost from nature magic was very charitable. And do the vine summons need food?

The extra food supplies help at first, yet during big games the nature summons which eat food tend to tip the scales towards starving from my experience. The vine summons don't need food yet these only bring one or two upon each casting by the AI. The harmful AI nature summons are the several animal types which arrive in groups for each casting... if only those vine summons arrived in large groups for a higher price the AI would play better.

Gandalf Parker said:
In my mass tests (mentioned earlier) I tended to find that Ermor usually led early in the game, Oceania in mid game, and Arcos in late game if it could last that long.

If those tests are easy to setup and run it would be interesting to see how the new nations play. If those tests take over an hour then it's probably not worth your time.

Gandalf Parker said:
One thing I played with was giving Eater of Dead as a pretender. It does break loose eventually but a nation like Ermor would make good use of being able to follow it around sweeping up the emptied provinces. It might make an interesting game scenario.

One problem is the human player could summon eater of the dead which makes the current eater of the dead disappear. There would also be times where it would turn independent and the AI nation would be fighting its own pretender. Ideally I would like to see a #wandering command and more official wandering creatures like eater of the dead.