Hello, I will be the new moderator of Europe Map Game. For now I am simply Darvince using an alternate account but in the future I may be an actual bot or I may be handed off to someone else who wants to run the game

hmm , then I suppose this sounds fun
also, would it restart, or would I just be essentially at a major disadvantage?

You would take over someone else who does not want to play anymore, as there are likely to be several people that do not want to play anymore.

okay, this seems to make sense, and also, would you continue to play under your Darvince account, or would you cease to continue?  

I would play as Darvince, I would just do moderator-y things as MapGameBot.

okay

I was actually thinking we could make this thing self-sufficient. With that Google Docs spreadsheet everybody can just keep track of their own resources and stuff. We can easily organize that a new round starts every Monday Interguild time. This is not like Interguild Island, where you need to do a dice roll for every action.
But before we revive this thing, I want to talk balance. There are a few points I want to discuss:

-Oceans are almost completely useless now. They aren't part of any country, so capturing them is a waste of resources. Starting on an island or on the coast is a significant disadvantage compared to central Europe. What I suggest is to merge them into a few very large pieces. Like one entire territory for the North Sea, one or two for the Atlantic, two for the Mediterranean. You won't have to capture as much to cross them, but because they are so large you can use them as a shield for a buffer against invasions.

-Connect all small islands to the mainland. Especially if they are part of a country. Right now there are a few islands in the middle of an ocean tile. If someone else has captured that ocean, too bad, no chance anymore to get that island.

-Nerf alliances and trading. This is very important. People can just pool all their money together and join forces as one super-team. This means you must either join a mega-alliance, or you are doomed. Three simple ways to solve this:
--Limit the number of possible alliances to your size. You can form on ally for every 5 or 10 territories you own. This nerfs the early trade, when it is at its most powerful.
--Have a delay in resource trades. If you send over resources, they shouldn't arrive until the start of the next turn. Again, this prevents people from just hoarding all their leftovers together and nerfs the early-game alliances.
--Pay a small fee for each trade and/or alliance. Not much, just one or two resources, but enough that people will actually start to consider if the alliance would be worth it, instead of just mindlessly accepting anyone who comes knocking at your door.

-Have start in capitals and instead remove their starting production. The major effect isn't much (you start with 5 production instead of 6, but you won't have to spend 25 resources on the capital anymore), but it is pretty nice to have a capital as base of operations for the game.

I also had some other ideas, like upgrading territories to increase production or increase their defense, but that is a bit too complicated for now.

Does anyone else want to play? I would make a poll but who voted doesn't get recorded.

Me you, and probably Thomas should get MapGameBot working.

i might continue playing

yah... but everyone should know before hand that I am kind of busy, and probably wont be able to make majorly time consuming events often  

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i'll play if teo does

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I'll play, but someone might have to PM me to remind me that a round has started.

I'll play aswell

i will take the authority of spamming jebbys pmbox reminding jebby that a round has started

Bump. Is MapGameBot permabanned since it's not really anyone's account?