I'm happy to take the input from players who are likely to submit games, would be fine to make it Domination - toying with the idea of running 2 Gauntlets simultaneously with the same settings but one Score and one Domination!
Seriously though, there is a lot of air in the UN dates of the deity tables, larger map sizes. And it's also a victory condition that is more accessible on faster game speeds for the less experienced player. Lately most deity gauntlets have been marathon, which call for very different tactics than normal speed. Would be interesting to follow a normal speed large or huge game for once.Isn't rainforest an utterly horrible map for domination? Lots of land, slow start and low production. QUOTE]
So... maybe you should just use slavery? Actually I haven't played any domination games on rainforest, just SS and cultural games, but I could imagine that there are some advantages of this map for domination victory:
1. Most of the iron and copper can be found in desert regions of the map, so AIs without deserts might be without either copper or iron.
2. AI have to build a lot of workers, often 4-5 turns up by a new city what you can easily conquer and then make peace if you are not strong enough.
3. Most of all, rainforest is a fun map to play!
Every time this subject comes up, it's all about military victories, space or high score. No love for UN.
I hate UN. It is all about how AI deals with you, and sometimes they mess up with you even if you do your best to get the highest diplomatic values.
Cultural games are fun, though. I prefer cultural games over military ones.
No love for UN.
The problem with UN, religious, and espionage/culture on large/huge is they can be done without expanding out of your starting area. Or even beyond one city. Kinda defeats the point of doing a big map.
Where's the love for Time games?
Those settings are the game that we're talking about, right?
If the goal is to try to break records, then having less restrictions is probably better than having more restrictions. If the goal were simply to compete against the current players, then having more restrictions would make more sense.
Historically that was true but less so over the last few years. People seem to like not having to agonise over settings, leaders etc!
That was what I suggested but it may not exactly fit for what people are looking for.
And I also think free choice of leader would be more interesting. On boreal there is no obvious choice. There's so much forests that the early mounted UUs lose some value. Maybe Keshiks could be awesome? Hwachas? Cho-ko-nu? Or go for Frederick and do some bulbing slingshot? He has the perfect starting techs for the typical gems+deer starts on this map. Rome starts with Fishing, which is really horrible. You are very unlikely to work any seafood early and there is no need for naval techs. Fishing mainly destroys your bulbing possibilities.
They do sound awesome.
