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classic

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Sun May 24, 2009 5:33 am
by thetheo
Has any1 ever gotten an entire continent at the start of the game?
Re: classic

Posted:
Sun May 24, 2009 6:42 am
by lozzini
yes... very often actually... the chances are qyute high and there are a LOT of games played on the classic maps
lozz
Re: classic

Posted:
Sun May 24, 2009 9:39 am
by thetheo
oh, thnx
Re: classic

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Mon May 25, 2009 11:38 pm
by dhallmeyer
depends on the number of players. in 2 and 3, it's not uncommon. larger than that, and it gets pretty rare.
Re: classic

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Tue May 26, 2009 2:57 pm
by Godsav1
dhallmeyer wrote: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.
Re: classic

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Tue May 26, 2009 6:32 pm
by azezzo
i have started with australia, or so. america on the drop, in my exp. it occurs about once every 300 games or so
Re: classic

Posted:
Wed May 27, 2009 8:23 am
by thetheo
I wonder whether, assuming picking of territs is random, that someone started out with asia and started first?
Re: classic

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Wed May 27, 2009 8:46 am
by 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.
Re: classic

Posted:
Wed May 27, 2009 8:39 pm
by 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.
Re: classic

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Thu May 28, 2009 3:07 am
by thetheo
ok thnx