Alfegard
Creator: Pimpshi || First Published: 06/22/2012 || Players: 6 || Size: 40x40
Categories: None
Rating: 7.00 in 1 rating
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Comments:
Creepy Crawly (06/22/2012 11:02pm | Edited: 06/22/2012 11:06pm):
This map has a cool concept, but it's a bit unfair that 2 countries start with ports and the rest
with airports. Sea units are tough, but let's face it, the mobility of air units is a major game
changer (especially on a map with this many chokes, and having no roads connecting
either). Granted, by the point they have money to build anything out of it, each country will
have at least one of each.

Another thing, more roads dood, maps this big take forever to play on, but when it's this
chokey and also lacks road to make up for the chokes with low defense, it makes games last
even longer.

Edit: GE will be forced to launch their missile super early because if they don't OS will take it.
The bottom two armies will be forced to fight for one missile also, which is a bit unfair
considering BH has two.

Also, that port that BM has will win him OS and YC easily and make him impossible to take
down by anyone else. BM will win over 50% of games guaranteed, he has his own private
lake with a port, and an uncontested missile for when things get dicey.

Another edit: Just noticed you joined your own game as BM.. Tsk tsk, naughty.
Pimpshi (06/23/2012 12:08am):
Oh lord, I definitely chose BM because I didn't think it had a clear advantage... oops. I
promise I'm not a terrible person! We'll play this one through and I'll make edits from
there. Thank you VERY much for the constructive criticism!
walkerboh01 (06/23/2012 05:24pm):
"I promise I'm not a terrible person!"

Hm... sounds to me like something only a terrible person would say! =p

If you're looking to make your maps fair, I would suggest making them symmetrical.
Otherwise it's almost impossible to keep one side from having an advantage. Also, you need
to majorly cut down on the amount of forests you use. Over-foresting your maps will slow
games way down, and as noted above, the map is already going to take forever to play out.
Shadow Star (06/24/2012 06:00pm):
I think my main beef with this map is that the roads aren't a bit more evenly spread out.
And it could be nice if there were a few more shoals.
A lot of the map feels very trudge heavy with the forests, and the chokepoints of the
bridges.

When starting out Symmetry is the biggest way to ensure that things are balanced. Barring
that i fyou calculate exactly how many days it takes to get to each property that countries
are "assigned" (it's expected that they get to them) and each country gets to the same
amount and kinds of property at the same day. that helps.
Ian_the_pro (06/24/2012 06:24pm):
I think the map is fine, but it could use more countries to make things more chaotic, and
also less woods as the chokepoints are pretty major , also YC cant attack OS directly, so
you might get rid of atleast one mountain



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