Ref, thanks for the detailed feedback! Cursory look is about the level I'm aiming for of balance - if there are obvious problems they should be observable from a cursory look after all.
I took almost all your suggestions. Decided to bump everyone up to three foods instead of down to two. Also instead of moving Germany I just gave them a bunch more BFC land, and swapped their corn and wheat tiles. And moved the tempting pig further away.
Also went a bit further: carved a couple straits into Rome and France to make part of their continents a little more contestable - off shore islands still should be more their sphere of influence than not, unless one of their neighbors is more desperate than they are and gets there first.
I still haven't figured out how to get Beyond the Sword normal screenshots to work again...but I remembered it's possible to screenshot -paste into Paint - save. Would drive me up a wall if I were trying to report a game with this method but for just getting a game launched, it should be adequate.
Already learned one thing by comparing these all next to each other - I'm still inconsistent in Calendar resources. Need to either move them away from everyone's capital, or add them to everyone. Think I'm going to give everyone a Calendar something or other; only need to add them to Japan, Germany, and Rome (and possibly delete one source from China).
Any other suggestions? I'm aiming to publish these to the threads in about five hours; I do have time to make additional edits.
Player 1 "China":
![[Image: Player%201%20China.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/lofio5drn5doxv6/Player%201%20China.jpg)
Player 2: "HRE"
![[Image: Player%202%20Dutch.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/8gr5mol7j8t528j/Player%202%20Dutch.jpg)
Player 3 "Aztec"
![[Image: Player%203%20Aztec.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zcpkf6foqcqcj6t/Player%203%20Aztec.jpg)
Player 4 "Mongols"
![[Image: Player%204%20Mongols.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3aikcy73g6z5syn/Player%204%20Mongols.jpg)
Player 5 "Japan"
![[Image: Player%205%20Japan.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/c1d0oznxb36f791/Player%205%20Japan.jpg)
Player 6 "Germany"
![[Image: Player%206%20Germany.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/n0chqkud7rs0uc0/Player%206%20Germany.jpg)
Player 7 "France"
![[Image: Player%207%20France.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zkh6h3lqizurgb7/Player%207%20France.jpg)
Player 8 "Zulu"
![[Image: Player%208%20Zulu.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mdncq3zfc4ucynm/Player%208%20Zulu.jpg)
Player 9 "Rome"
![[Image: Player%209%20Rome.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0dswywstv07gitf/Player%209%20Rome.jpg)
Player 10 "Mali"
I took almost all your suggestions. Decided to bump everyone up to three foods instead of down to two. Also instead of moving Germany I just gave them a bunch more BFC land, and swapped their corn and wheat tiles. And moved the tempting pig further away.
Also went a bit further: carved a couple straits into Rome and France to make part of their continents a little more contestable - off shore islands still should be more their sphere of influence than not, unless one of their neighbors is more desperate than they are and gets there first.
I still haven't figured out how to get Beyond the Sword normal screenshots to work again...but I remembered it's possible to screenshot -paste into Paint - save. Would drive me up a wall if I were trying to report a game with this method but for just getting a game launched, it should be adequate.
Already learned one thing by comparing these all next to each other - I'm still inconsistent in Calendar resources. Need to either move them away from everyone's capital, or add them to everyone. Think I'm going to give everyone a Calendar something or other; only need to add them to Japan, Germany, and Rome (and possibly delete one source from China).
Any other suggestions? I'm aiming to publish these to the threads in about five hours; I do have time to make additional edits.
Player 1 "China":
![[Image: Player%201%20China.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/lofio5drn5doxv6/Player%201%20China.jpg)
Player 2: "HRE"
![[Image: Player%202%20Dutch.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/8gr5mol7j8t528j/Player%202%20Dutch.jpg)
Player 3 "Aztec"
![[Image: Player%203%20Aztec.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zcpkf6foqcqcj6t/Player%203%20Aztec.jpg)
Player 4 "Mongols"
![[Image: Player%204%20Mongols.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3aikcy73g6z5syn/Player%204%20Mongols.jpg)
Player 5 "Japan"
![[Image: Player%205%20Japan.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/c1d0oznxb36f791/Player%205%20Japan.jpg)
Player 6 "Germany"
![[Image: Player%206%20Germany.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/n0chqkud7rs0uc0/Player%206%20Germany.jpg)
Player 7 "France"
![[Image: Player%207%20France.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zkh6h3lqizurgb7/Player%207%20France.jpg)
Player 8 "Zulu"
![[Image: Player%208%20Zulu.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mdncq3zfc4ucynm/Player%208%20Zulu.jpg)
Player 9 "Rome"
![[Image: Player%209%20Rome.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0dswywstv07gitf/Player%209%20Rome.jpg)
Player 10 "Mali"
![[Image: Player%2010%20Mali.jpg]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/awkww56h2an90ia/Player%2010%20Mali.jpg)
EitB 25 - Perpentach
Occasional mapmaker
Occasional mapmaker