van=can sorry
ma=map

map 1's 23 bonuses:

3 1/2
6 2/3
4 3/4
4 4/5
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5 5/6 (only 2 commonly picked)
1 6/8 (never picked)

19 are commonly picked. the other 4 are hardly ever picked and not especially useful.

map 2's 22 bonuses:
2 1/3 (best as counters)
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1 1/2
8 2/4
4 3/5
5 4/6 (since bonus values are lowered, these are now worth picking)
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2 3/6 (these islands are worth picking now)

22 are worth picking, depending on strategy (counters, safe combo in cyclades' 3/6). the 18 in the middle are the most commonly picked.

if you prefer repetitive picks, map 1 > map 2.
if you prefer more creativity with your picks, map 2 > map 1.
if the template does not have less wastelands: map 1 > map 2 (THE 5/6 AND 6/8 BONUSES ACCOUNT FOR 38 -- OR 36% -- OF THE MAP AND ATE UP THE WASTELANDS! since those areas are not very important, the number of wastelands worked fine. but on map 2 the BONUS LOGIC is not suitable for the NUMBER OF WASTELANDS. why decrease the value of bonuses, making the bigger bonuses more significant, if you let those more significant bonuses eat up so many of the wastelands?)

(maybe you won't comprehend this part, gnuff. you don't really ever make templates. you just play them. i can't remember seeing myhand make a template of his own before either. settings for one map don't always suit settings for another. my argument is that the MAP is better. you're arguing about which template is better: i think we both agree that map 1's template is better for map 1 than for map 2.)

updated map: http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=22173

now looks better

^^ updated map's bonuses:

3 1/2
5 2/3
5 3/4
5 4/5
6 5/6

everything is worth picking.

Somebody play!

yes Qi i think i could have won with Sparta, unfortunately i missed that change.

PS, is there any way you could do a realtime strategic 1v1 ladder? Or a Europe 2v2 multiday?

Just played this with the new map, it's crap. Decided to close it down altogether until i have some free time to rewrite the parts that are in need of rewrite and pick a new and better template/settings.

JSA: I could, i just don't have free time to handle the maintenance right now, atleast until mid June. Anyone who knows a little of php and has a server online can easily modify my code to do something of their own though. It's all up on github free for grabs.

the original ladder and setting was great
until qi changed it and killed it
a job well done

Somebody please make a Strategic 1v1/Season VII/Guiroma real time ladder (thanks for putting the code up ps)!!!!

yeah i agree with myhand.

And I hate the new map too :/