classic

[thetheo]

Has any1 ever gotten an entire continent at the start of the game?

[lozzini]

yes... very often actually... the chances are qyute high and there are a LOT of games played on the classic maps

lozz

[thetheo]

oh, thnx

[dhallmeyer]

depends on the number of players. in 2 and 3, it's not uncommon. larger than that, and it gets pretty rare.

[Godsav1]

depends on the number of players. in 2 and 3, it's not uncommon. larger than that, and it gets pretty rare.

I normally on play 1 vs. 1 although now I have started to play a little bit more larger games but most of the time I never start out with a full continent.

[azezzo]

i have started with australia, or so. america on the drop, in my exp. it occurs about once every 300 games or so

[thetheo]

I wonder whether, assuming picking of territs is random, that someone started out with asia and started first?

[lancehoch]

Because it is random. The odds of that happening are very small, so it only occurs once every X thousand games or so (I don't know how many players you are talking about, but for more players the number goes up a lot). The thing is, there are so many games played on that map, you are going to see it happen more often than you would expect.

[The Neon Peon]

Odds of starting with a continent in a 2 player:

Australia or South America: 0.772%
Africa: 0.0394%
Europe: 0.004%
North America: 0.0006%
Asia: 0.00000005%

So to start with Asia, it would be less than a 1 in 2 billion chance.

[thetheo]

ok thnx