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elonmuskszahnbuerste@feddit.org to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 12 days ago

All Projections Suck, So Play Risk On A Globe Instead

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All Projections Suck, So Play Risk On A Globe Instead

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elonmuskszahnbuerste@feddit.org to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 12 days ago
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The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gal…
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    Flat Earthers hate this one simple weird old trick!

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    https://www.instructables.com/3D-Risk-Game/

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      Ah thanks. Too bad they arent ready-made

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        I know, right!

  • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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    Projection? Risk is played on a network with vertices representing the territories.

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      So literally like Stellaris

      • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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        Every 4x game ever is just risk with different bells and whistles when you come down to it

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          I don’t really consider Paradox grand strategy games to be the same genre as 4X, they’re really their own beast and the complexity of even their older games makes Risk look like a game for toddlers.

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          That’s too reductionist for me to upvote. It’s like saying every bird is just a coelacanth

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            No man, birds are coelacanth with bells and whistles

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    And then Mercator uncle’s like “Projection? What’s a projection? The Earth’s flat!”

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    Great idea in theory, but please use an accurate globe, and don’t put ridiculously oversized continents on it like in those photos.

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      It makes sense from a usability POV - if you increase the size of the continents, you can place your armies better. Esp. as half of the planet is just the pacific ocean, which has no function in Risk as far as I remember

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    Equal Earth, 2018 for the win!

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