<r> I've been playing a couple of random games against several AIs and another thing occurs to me: it is a lot of hassle to conquer all of the AIs territory and kill all its remaining units <I><s>[i]</s>after<e>[/i]</e></I> you've captured <B><s>[b]</s>all<e>[/b]</e></B> their cities. It would be ...

<t> Jeffery H,<br/>
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You make a fair point that allocating the map limits the fun of exploration (although sometime you want a quick game and don't want to explore). Perhaps what you're looking for is some kind of option with even distribution of cities, such that each player has exactly the ...

<t> Jeffery H,<br/>
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I think the first bullet point will go a long way to alleviating the problems of unfair initial placement. For example, in a two player game you could set each player to have 30% of the starting population and then have 40% unoccupied. As there is less unoccupied land ...

<r> I was thinking about the longevity of games the other day, don't ask me why, and it occurred to me what really gives a game long lifespan: random scenarios. The way you can just fire up the game, select a few variables, and play something completely new, completely unique, without relying on the ...