Quote Originally Posted by A.Saturnus
It would be ideal if FoW is toggled off all the time (including the controls), so every single reassessment can be spotted. However, please add to your results a description whether or not your trials have been exactly as hrvojej has layed out.
True, but then you would have to scan the map all the time after every turn, instead of just doing it once at the end. Also, you would have to have FoW on all the time, and you wouldn't be able to escape arguments that the game was not intended to run without FoW and that the AI is lifting sieges because it's shy or something... In sum and a priori, I don't think that the information you would get from countinuous sampling outweighs the number of trials you can do by scaning at the end. I know what you're saying, but I predict the effect size to be so large that it won't really matter.

Do people have a lot of problems as the Britons from being besieged? I don't have time right now to do a lot of trials, it ended up being a busy end of the week, but I ran the control twice and was not besieged in 15 turns. Maybe I was just lucky? In any case, I thought that the suggestion to take Britons was a good one, since you're away from the action, and in addition to not being involved yourself you won't stand in a way of expansion of others. Another faction I can think of that also might be good is Parthia, but I have to admit that I have not played the regular campaign with either of the two, so I don't know how likely you are to get attacked.

And to answer therother's point about modding the game: I think that moving a single faction's name from nonplayable to playable factions list is really nothing we should concern ourselves about. I do however think that it is important we pick a faction that is unlockable through regular means, as it would seem that those which are not have some unfinished quirks about them. The only thing that remains to be seen is if with Britons you cannot avoid being attacked all the time, then we should consider other factions like Parthia. I'll test it as soon as I have time (tomorrow night it seems).

Cheers, and thanks to all who intend to participate