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.