think through scenarios

[Gilligan]

Concise description:

• make sure the gameplay of scenarios is actually fair and...makes sense

Specifics/Details:

• City Mogul no neutrals? this is stupid. anyone that starts with the Manor and Mall wins automatically.
• Anyone that goes first has a supreme advantage over anyone else by 20 or 40 troops by immediately losing their autodeploys because there's no neutral to buff defense.
• anyone going last will have probably lost their autodeploys.
• if I counted correctly, anyone that starts on W4 or E4 can bombard TWENTY FOUR shops each worth 20 troops each. yeah, talk about an advantage for going first. drop 60+ troops and take everyone's deploy.
• do I need to go on?

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• fair games are always fun

[Dukasaur]

Scenarios are not necessarily fair. That's why no points change hands. This is a way to play out situations oddball situations because:

• You're curious "what would happen if"
• You want to challenge yourself in impossible situations (like playing Civilization with difficulty set to Deity)
• You want to not challenge yourself and just amuse yourself with a guaranteed win (like playing Duke Nukem with all the cheats turned on)
• You want to simulate an actual historical event (setting up World 2.1 for a World War II simulation with actual relative troop strengths of the major powers.)
• You want to rectify something that has always annoyed you (why does every AOR2 game end with 90 % of the map still neutral?)
• Or for a thousand other conceivable reasons.

Play balancing is just not part of the plan.

[Gilligan]

Scenarios are not necessarily fair. That's why no points change hands. This is a way to play out situations oddball situations because:

• You're curious "what would happen if"
• You want to challenge yourself in impossible situations (like playing Civilization with difficulty set to Deity)
• You want to not challenge yourself and just amuse yourself with a guaranteed win (like playing Duke Nukem with all the cheats turned on)
• You want to simulate an actual historical event (setting up World 2.1 for a World War II simulation with actual relative troop strengths of the major powers.)
• You want to rectify something that has always annoyed you (why does every AOR2 game end with 90 % of the map still neutral?)
• Or for a thousand other conceivable reasons.

Play balancing is just not part of the plan.

huh. didn't know there were no points exchanged. that information is hidden in the depths...