The Multiplayer Map Reader's Digest

Agent Jack Bauer · November 25th, 2006, 3:12 pm

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/november25sullas

Listen very carefully to what I'm about to say to you. This is a radical revision of the 1v1 "Sulla's Ruins". There is an impassible mountain where the statue will be (in the release), so do not save this under the same name as the version that came with the game. I've killed men for less.

Post by **Doc Paterson** » November 30th, 2006, 2:14 pm

Some small adjustments to Morituri.

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/novembermorituri

Post by **Doc Paterson** » November 30th, 2006, 9:39 pm

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/nov ... stonedelta

Major changes to Sablestone Delta.

Post by **turin** » November 30th, 2006, 9:43 pm

This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway.

Doc, is there a reason you aren't using the [map] tag to post these updates?

Post by **Doc Paterson** » November 30th, 2006, 9:49 pm

turin wrote:This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway.

Doc, is there a reason you aren't using the [map] tag to post these updates?

Mainly because I find the visual rather unsightly. Perhaps the display is not the same on all computers- For the time being, it's sort of a preference thing.

Post by **Doc Paterson** » December 17th, 2006, 6:20 pm

the newest Blitz:

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/december16blitz

Post by **Doc Paterson** » December 21st, 2006, 5:58 pm

A post 1.1.14 Den of Onis.

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/december17denofonis

Post by **Doc Paterson** » December 25th, 2006, 6:59 pm

A few small changes to the most recent (1.2) Blitz.

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/december25blitz

Post by **Doc Paterson** » January 20th, 2007, 3:54 pm

This newest Blitz revision does away with one-turn (waterunit) transport between water villages. It wasn't at all unbalanced in my opinion, but it was, more than anything, an unpleasant drag. This revision reinforces one of the goals of the previous, which was insuring that units on the center island couldn't avoid combat with water units (somewhat of an anti-flying unit measure). The island is a bit more diverse now, and should make play in that area more interesting.

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/january20blitz.txt

Post by **Doc Paterson** » February 6th, 2007, 9:37 pm

Here's a preview of the upcoming 4 player Hamlets:

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/feb ... 4p_Hamlets

Be sure to do 1221 and set each player's starting gold to 75, as this is only the raw map file.

Post by **Doc Paterson** » February 15th, 2007, 3:28 pm

A slight revision to Charge.

http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/february14charge

R121 · Post by **R121** » February 17th, 2007, 9:47 pm

Possible imbalance on Castle Hopping:

This map isn't fairly playable on random. The problem relates to the distance for leaders to reach the center keeps and the huge advantage the first player can get.

If player 1 has a leader with 6 movement, he can reach the island keep on his second turn. If the opposing team only has leaders with 5 movement, they will be 2 turns behind player 1 on reaching the island. By then, all the center villages are taken as well as the defensible terrain. If player 3 is a lawful faction and player 1 is chaotic, then it's complete disaster, as night comes just when battle is joined, with player 1 having a huge economic advantage and the good terrain.

Furthermore, if player 1 is good, he'll also have a scout on the southern water village. This means player 3 will have to leave at least one unit behind on the southwest coast to prevent the scout from taking all his villages, giving player 1 an even greater advantage on the island.

The only reasonable strategy on the map is to choose a leader with 6 movement (or at least one leader on your team with 6 movement; perhaps the other could get away without it).

My proposed solution would be to change the distance from the starting location to the center keeps to 10 hexes from twelve, such that 5 movement leaders can reach it on turn 2. Leaders with 4 movement are still screwed, though.

Imp · Post by **Imp** » February 18th, 2007, 3:37 am

I noticed that too, R121. The game always seems incredibly easy when I get a 6 MP leader and the other side has none.

Post by **Doc Paterson** » February 19th, 2007, 3:52 am

Imp wrote:I noticed that too, R121. The game always seems incredibly easy when I get a 6 MP leader and the other side has none.

That map's basically been under Bec's supervision ever since he did a major revision of it, but I'll take a look at it, as that sounds like a reasonable concern.

Post by **Doc Paterson** » February 19th, 2007, 4:26 pm

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm working on this. The problem is easily solveable for every leader but the Drake Warrior, given that we're cutting the Shocktrooper from random leader selection.

Hopefully, I'll have a decent draft soon, which I'll post up.