fluffyflyingpig Wrote:There's a bunch of interesting things you can do with weird symmetry properties of toroidal maps. I'd really like to see someone make a 7 player map using this layout:Now that's seriously freaky! I'd be confused just trying to figure out who my neighbours were if I started near any of the edges of that.
Not to mention I tend to dislike being on the edge of a cylindrical map, just because I find it more aesthetically pleasing when my borders are together. Imagine how much worse it would be being the orange guy with the borders in four places according to the minimap! I'd go insane!
I think in general I find toroidal maps more palatable the larger they are (and the more people that are on them). When they get too small, they get a bit too confusing to keep track of in-game. At least for me...
fluffyflyingpig Wrote:That map you posted looks pretty cool. It would be a nightmare trying to set up nicely in world builder though. But potentially perfectly balanced!Yeah, I think I'd pass on being the mapmaker for that. But I'd be curious to play it, that's for sure.