Starting Point Maps Limited To One Starting Point Per Player

[Woodruff]

Starting Position Maps Limited to One Starting Point Per Player OPTION:

• As an option, limit each player to one starting point on "starting point maps"

Specifics/Details:

• On maps such as Peloponnesian Wars, Feudal Wars, New World, etc...limit each player to one starting point, rather than the multiple starting points they now get when smaller numbers of players are on a map. Implement this as an option only, as obviously, there appears to be some reason why it's not the case already.

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

• This would add a great deal of enjoyment to 1-vs-1 on these maps, specifically, in my opinion. The game many times is decided from the drop simply because one of the two players will have starting points that are very near to one another while the other players' starting points are spread apart. By having only one starting point, the game becomes much more equal at the start.

[shocked439]

why split the troops evenly among the players in non starting position maps? let everyone start with one territory call it conquest mode. Build your empire from scraps.

[PLAYER57832]

It might help some games, but would greatly distort others. For example, if you got Aoria and your opponent Borun. Still, if its an option.. why not?

[Woodruff]

why split the troops evenly among the players in non starting position maps? let everyone start with one territory call it conquest mode. Build your empire from scraps.

I don't like that idea for non-starting-position maps, because they're not built in a way that is "fair from every starting position", so they would result in what would be, in my view, consistently abhorrent drops.

However, the start-position maps ARE built that way by the very nature of their design, and so this suggestion falls perfectly in line with the design they already have.

It might help some games, but would greatly distort others. For example, if you got Aoria and your opponent Borun. Still, if its an option.. why not?

I'm not seeing the vast significance between Aoria and Borun. They have access to essentially the same things immediately.