If we sail off the left edge, let us pop out on the right side.
R5 is meta center of the world where it gets free trade to every single region. Take away this imbalance by not making it the center of the world map anymore.
#R5 meta is imbalanced. Let us sail around the world to fix it.
nocturne cargo
paper rock
This is actually a great idea.
frigid sable
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sharing other links to more feedback on this topic. It's a big topic! Region 5 meta is to strong!
magic trellis
Sounds great, the same should go for up/down also obviously. It'd be great for your ingame map to behave the same way.
shy glen
this is a good idea given the current world map and resource distribution.
another related but different factor is that if every continent wasn't more or less "equal", then there wouldn't be an advantage to being in the center.
in other words, if the outer continents had more diverse and exclusive resources, then there would be advantages to being on those continents compared to the middle
they've already done this to a degree, with Snow / Sapwood / Desert biomes, but that's only for T7+ resources, so it hasn't really had an impact yet
edit: to clarify, not necessarily suggesting that biomes like Autumn, Swamp, etc., should be exclusive to certain continents. this was done in A3 and it wasn't necessarily great. it's just an example of a way to balance advantages between continents.
also I am realizing that they probably designed it this way in order to balance load and population across the servers, so i don't really have any ideas to fix this just making observation as to why R5 is the most populated region
magic trellis
this is a good idea given the current world map and resource distribution.
anot...
I'm not sure I agree really that resources being more common or even exclusive on an outer continent would be helpful as it would still make sense to trade on the middle continent as a natural halfway point between any buyers and sellers bringing prosperity to the region.
north jackal
Posted this all the way back on 6/29 and sadly got no +1s lol. Knew this would be an issue. The edges should just loop around. Heading north across the edge loops to the corresponding region on the south. Then west and east like you said.
hot spindle
Maybe center region could be a big chunk of ocean with little Islands in it, this could be a nice addition for water settlements and sea monsters, just an idea
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