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07-04-2014, 03:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-04-2014, 03:57 PM by The Usurper.)
How about we change the starting season so the North doesn't hit winter before most kingdoms can take their regions?
Since all games are exploratory lets push back winter 2 months, the South is heavily advantaged in this current situation.
In one of my games we are moving on turn 5 and only 2 northern kingdoms have a region.
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I have thought about this quite a bit. I would move the seasons back 1 month to have it be more fair. Either that or have all games start on a random month, how cool would that be?
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I like 1 month back. So non winter gets 2 hard months letting North build. I would also think it could randomly start in the middle of winter or Summer. Flop N and S once in a while
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07-04-2014, 05:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2014, 03:59 AM by Jumbie.)
The start time WAS earlier and the southern kingdoms had to suck it through all of summer. The new mid-summer start date is the adjustment to make the game balanced that was requested by long-time players who had experienced the disadvantage of the early start on the south.
I think you're discounting how hard it is for the South to start with low production.
EDIT - Just saw that you mention the change brought on by exploratory...I suppose if we start to see a pattern of northern advantage I'd support going back to the old dates. But it has to run a while first to see if there's actually something there.
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I like the idea of a random start month. Of course, I'm a big fan of randomizing just about everything.
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I'm good either way. I've--at least, initially--found the exploratory format actually lessens the impact between northern/southern production in the beginning of game...
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I love the randomizing idea as well
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+1 to more randomizing as it might also mitigate some of the advantages experienced players have at the start.
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I'm not in favor of randomizing, because there are equal odds of a new player getting stuck in a bad schedule and losing their enthusiasm as of a veteran player getting a disadvantage.
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