Arnuz: - some undefended structures in the lizard starting area, some more in the lizard/orc south. Missed?
- dungeons so close to the start entice risk-taking too much IMHO - it feels like a necessity as you'd have to commit resources far from the action to explore it later on
Caves:
- undefended drow town at 55:70 but I guess this is intended as it blocks the "free node"
Deeps:
- goblin deep city undefended
- one of the above is a node, in the lizards' start, I think you gave one to all players but this one can be reached at turn 2-3 as opposed to 5-7

Arnuz: - more teleporters go from south to north than reverse, but there are also a way for the orcs to attack the goblin ( a TP) and for the azrac/lizards the dwarves (harder - the two caves could be accessed by flyers, mountain walkers, or using lower terrain) so I guess this is intended?

Arnuz: Deep:
- different timing in reaching the deep, goblins and dwarves are faster but they need to commit the hero because of no cavalry: intended I guess as their first prisoner is also relatively farther
- goblins and orcs need to buy the city before reaching mana nodes, the others can bypass it
- the new giveaway is crazy lol. Flyers can snatch it easily, intended I guess.

Arnuz: This seems to be taking a lot more than Swirlmount 1, I wonder if we have back and forths in the time zones?
I volunteer to fix any of these that aren't intended. I also propose, if everyone agrees, to swap around the order so that we're in TZ order, if my feeling about timing is right, and restart. I mean swap the players within the map so that we keep the same choice.

Arnuz: - dungeons so close to the start entice risk-taking too much IMHO - it feels like a necessity as you'd have to commit resources far from the action to explore it later on

Arnuz: To recap here the decision is: should we restart after the improvements?
I think Bookwyrm's comment above counts as a +1 (right?) so we'd be missing Thereunto and Jyri.

Then we could restart in TZ order to make it faster, which means, east to west:
- Jyri (you usually send me emails right as I start playing)
- Southern/Me more or less same time
- I don't know between Thereunto and Jyri

Arnuz: To recap here the decision is: should we restart after the improvements?
I think Bookwyrm's comment above counts as a +1 (right?) so we'd be missing Thereunto and Jyri.

Then we could restart in TZ order to make it faster, which means, east to west:
- Jyri (you usually send me emails right as I start playing)
- Southern/Me more or less same time
- I don't know between Thereunto and Jyri

jyri: Fine by me. Of course, I'll need a guarantee I get that OP sword again.

Bookwyrm627: I think the sides are set by the game, so aligning by timezones would pick races for people instead of people getting to choose.

Also, I've only played two turns so far, and I don't really care if we restart.

southern: Which one was it? Making 120 items got boring quickly..

Bookwyrm627: Stormbringer. Lightning Strike, Lightning Immune, two other good abilities, and an estimated +3 attack.

jyri: Those two other abilities were Life Stealing and Extra Strike.

southern: Well, that's Stormbringer, what do you expect? I read the Elric of Melnibone books earlier this year.

Bookwyrm627: And you were complaining about not putting physical immune on the same item with magic immune. XD