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RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

Krill Wrote:Well, the islands can wait...

How does everyone think the map balance is holding up though?
It's held up fine so far, and the setup is creating a lot of entertaining action. The islands and toroidal wrap will create even more interesting situations in the future, I would suspect.

So yes, the mapmakers have done a great job! Nice fishing :-)
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novice Wrote:Yeah, well, at least he'll salvage some credibility for future games.

EDIT: The funny thing is, reading his spoiler thread, Whosit really seems like a nice guy. Just . . . whimsical, I guess smile

In Master of Orion terms he's clearly an erratic leader. smile
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Krill Wrote:Well, the islands can wait...

How does everyone think the map balance is holding up though?

Pretty well overall. The only fair gripes would be Greece having no copper and no strong AH resource at a potential city 2 to encourage research of said tech (when both neighbours had handy copper), and, perhaps more significantly, most of Dantski's food is quite a few tiles away from his capital. I don't think either of these is game-breaking though.

As I wrote elsewhere, LiPing broke the balance with 2.5 turns of settler moving but that was a very lucky punch indeed.
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Rome's best defense would that they were drunk and didn't know what they were doing. But how do you explain those emailsbanghead?

zakalwe Wrote:In Master of Orion terms he's clearly an erratic leader. smile
Mwin
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I think it's a fantastic map. People feel boxed in and there are tempting city sites in contentious zones between civs. It's encouraging early tension and conflict and makes for a really interesting game. It's playing out really well.
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Rome's proven to be a dealbreaker, and Greece moves a settler and a worker unescorted next to Rome's warrior?

I mean, sure, people should keep their word, but that is just waving a red flag in front of a bull! Couldn't they wait one turn for game-enforced peace?

Plako seems to be both trusting and forgiving... Remember he tempted Rome earlier too with a worker farming the wheat outside Seoul.
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Quite agree - the map is really working out nicely! The close proximity is really making things interesting and the balance seems right.

Very curious to see what happens with the islands - whether there will be a big old rush for them later.

Be interested to see how much of a crazy power surge the romans go on with their gold, iron and assorted pointed sticks...
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Quoted in Byzance thread..

antisocialmunky Wrote:What do you think would happen if you decided to start settling on the island to the North if the war keeps going on? They would have to Operation Sealion you out of the game - something that I don't believe can be effectively done with this tech.

Slightly (or worst?) spoilerish, because for all they know it could well be the same land mass (they didn't explore East which is were athlete+kalin are). And it would be VERY foolish for them to 'escape' there is the land was directly connected to their ennemy capitol.
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Well, I changed it to 'landmass,' good catch. If you imply it is not an island, its as spoilerish as if you did imply it was an island since they could think its just an island.
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antisocialmunky Wrote:Well, I changed it to 'landmass,' good catch. If you imply it is not an island, its as spoilerish as if you did imply it was an island.


Too late and another prove that we Lurkers should better shut up more often.
So can we please stop posting suggestions/sugestive questions in their threads?

(Rego gets an email with the text everytime a new message is posted in his thread)
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