Gandalf Parker's site in support of the great strategy
game called Dominions 3
This is an ugly little temporary page until someone does a better one.
At the moment we have 24 nations in Early Era, 23 in Middle Era, and 21 in
Late Era. And we can figure on some more coming. Ive debated and decided
that using numbers such as 25 nations in an era made the numbers expand
too fast. So Im thinking that a reasonably "full" standard game would be
20 players. The Dom3 game defines Small maps as 10 provs per player,
Medium maps 15/player, Large maps 20/player. Then there is allowing for
solo players who like an online world feel to an ongoing personal game.
And the SingleAge games which we now have slots up to 95 (remove 3 for
indepts and 1 in-work) which means that even the maximum size is just a
medium sized game map.
Dueling maps
(2*25) 50 provinces
Tiny maps
(20*5) 100 provinces
Small maps
(20*10) 200 provinces
Medium maps
(20*15) 300 provinces
Large maps
(20*20) 400 provinces
Huge maps
(20*30) 600 provinces
Grand maps
(20*50) 1000 provinces
Epic maps
(20*60) 1200 provinces
MAXIMUM maps
(20*75) 1500 provinces
And now giving in to peer pressure and providing the "standard" sized map for "most games" :)
STANDARD maps
(8*18 or 9*16 or 10*15) 150 provinces
DISCLAIMER: Random maps have random quirks such as provinces which can only be teleported into (no neighbors) or too many 1-way-in provinces (which make good caves if you edit it) or islands. Random maps should not be played too tightly. Allow extra provinces-per-player to allow for random quirks unless you plan to edit the map before using it.