stahrgazer wrote:As to your concern about new players, new players get to join the Society of Cooks; those people who are members of SoC get to see the "Shapes" layout overlayed on the new map to help them with terr names.
SoC members get to see the names from the Shapes map overlaid on top of the map that everyone else is seeing. So they still see all of the city names and the gamelog still uses city names, but in addition there are number/letter combos from the shapes map. It's a lot more crowded, and unless you are using strategy guides based on those numbers/letters I don't see any reason why you would prefer that version. The reason it was created is because the SoC did all of their training on Shapes, and had lots of strategies written with those existing names.