10/10 map. Would* play again. 
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Great scenario, design, and lovingly crafted details. I do think it asked an awful lot of the players, though, so the next one should be a little less intense.
In terms of constructive critique: the map worked well for me because it constantly afforded and rewarded a variety of approaches. This was not, I think, true at the very start, where there were five obvious city sites. I would imagine that every team settled the capital 2S of the Wheat, that every team settled Cows/Gems and Gems/Gems for cities #2 and #3 (the order could be flipped), and that every team had claimed the Fur island as their fourth or fifth city site.
The tasks were well designed too. Perhaps I am biased, but I do think a genuine early game task should have been put in place to offset the cost of purchasing early hints.
Cathy #1 was far slower than its placement suggests. With abundant land Oil, it might baaarrely win out over the second objective. This would have made for an interesting optimization challenge, where a team that had conquered the map could utilize late game GS bulbs to 1-turn Fission while simultaneously hooking up Aluminum. As it was, the disparate location of Uranium and Oil coupled with the need for offshore platforms made it totally unfeasible. I would have also left a few generous hints on the map about the approximate placement of Aluminum. Or you could have purchased these as direction hints... but that would have meant more work for you guys. After seeing the location of Aluminum and Oil (everywhere but our island) there was no way I'd gamble that I could gather 4 groups of 3-5 Workers to mine 4 Aluminum in Spain/Japan/Russia/China/random ice islands in 2/3 turns (the time needed to research Railroad + Combustion).
I hope this was constructive.
I realize my comments about the hints are too specific to help with future maps. I had great fun, in any case. Thanks for your efforts.
As suggestions for the next map: if you want to increase the difficulty, try using the Toroidal wrap setting and give the AI enough commercial resources to stay afloat. Or create some Deity-lite scenarios: Deity, but remove the AI's free Settler and/or turn off barbs. Barbarian RNG is the number 1 problem with Deity in competitions like this.
I do think Deity restricts the number of potential strategies that can be utilized to win, though. SGOTM is a competition against other teams and players, not the AI.
If you want some suggestions for variation: remove tech trading (this will make things harder and slower). Or give some choices about the start, e.g., to steal a scenario from a multiplayer map:
@WastinTime
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Spoiler :
Great scenario, design, and lovingly crafted details. I do think it asked an awful lot of the players, though, so the next one should be a little less intense.
In terms of constructive critique: the map worked well for me because it constantly afforded and rewarded a variety of approaches. This was not, I think, true at the very start, where there were five obvious city sites. I would imagine that every team settled the capital 2S of the Wheat, that every team settled Cows/Gems and Gems/Gems for cities #2 and #3 (the order could be flipped), and that every team had claimed the Fur island as their fourth or fifth city site.
The tasks were well designed too. Perhaps I am biased, but I do think a genuine early game task should have been put in place to offset the cost of purchasing early hints.
Cathy #1 was far slower than its placement suggests. With abundant land Oil, it might baaarrely win out over the second objective. This would have made for an interesting optimization challenge, where a team that had conquered the map could utilize late game GS bulbs to 1-turn Fission while simultaneously hooking up Aluminum. As it was, the disparate location of Uranium and Oil coupled with the need for offshore platforms made it totally unfeasible. I would have also left a few generous hints on the map about the approximate placement of Aluminum. Or you could have purchased these as direction hints... but that would have meant more work for you guys. After seeing the location of Aluminum and Oil (everywhere but our island) there was no way I'd gamble that I could gather 4 groups of 3-5 Workers to mine 4 Aluminum in Spain/Japan/Russia/China/random ice islands in 2/3 turns (the time needed to research Railroad + Combustion).
I hope this was constructive.
I realize my comments about the hints are too specific to help with future maps. I had great fun, in any case. Thanks for your efforts.As suggestions for the next map: if you want to increase the difficulty, try using the Toroidal wrap setting and give the AI enough commercial resources to stay afloat. Or create some Deity-lite scenarios: Deity, but remove the AI's free Settler and/or turn off barbs. Barbarian RNG is the number 1 problem with Deity in competitions like this.
I do think Deity restricts the number of potential strategies that can be utilized to win, though. SGOTM is a competition against other teams and players, not the AI.
If you want some suggestions for variation: remove tech trading (this will make things harder and slower). Or give some choices about the start, e.g., to steal a scenario from a multiplayer map:
Spoiler :
@WastinTime
Spoiler :
1–3 turns would be fair, depending on how the Silver was leveraged. I agree that it is not decisive.
good job bringing home the victories on schedule
That disappointing, but thanks a lot for the quick answer 
