So instead of working today I'm dazing off and brainstorming of countless projects to do.
(Typical Sagittarius)
Since I already spend a huge amount of time using graphic applications making comics/memes/gifs I'm debating making a USA map in the style of Risk. I'm a huge board game nerd so my theory is to set up all of the power 5 schools as their influence territory on the map and then the bonuses be if you collect every school in the conference you get bonus troops.
Most of you will always make the first move to destroy Charlottesville because the Ukraine is weak. Feel free to add any ideas that might be fun and related for me to create this.
-VDH
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This is incredibly close to the CFB imperialism map
^^ This.
Also, the gif in the OP perfectly describes my feelings about Risk.
Risk is a wonderful way to lose friends.
Not as quickly as diplomacy, but fast enough
A key difference is P5 vs FBS, so there's fewer territories. It could get dicey in areas where there are a lot of close neighboring schools, though. Example being Raleigh-Durham area, Los Angeles area, etc.
Yeah I follow that, I'm just spitballing a much simpler alternate map that can actually be used using a Risk set. I have a Westeros version I've made before. So it would be just figuring out the smooth lines/barriers/connecting paths. And the control bonuses. Probably could do each division in the power 5 as it's own control bonus.
EX: ACC would be divided into north and south (like it should have always been Swofford!)
The ACC North would effectively be the old Big East. On behalf of our non-revenue sports, I say:
NO THANK YOU!
As someone who lives 1 mile from NCST I would just like to have some better model for rotation in the ACC beyond playing them once every 12 years in Carter-Finley lol
Well, North/South doesn't fix that problem.
North:
VT, UVA, Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, BC
South
FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson
Then, of the four North Carolina schools, the one furthest north is....
Wake Forest
In fact, NC State is the southernmost of the four Carolina schools:
Wake Forest: 36.1339° N
Duke: 36.0014° N
UN¢: 35.9049° N
NC State: 35.786° N
That means the divisions would end up:
VT, UVA, Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Wake Forest
FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson, UNC, NC State, Duke
Do you want to have to play UVA, Syracuse, Pitt, BC and Wake every year?
With a Miami permanent crossover and a 9th conference game rotating 2 teams from
the other division, I'd be fine with that.
Plus a permanent OOC P5 matchup against either WVU or Tenn
I'd be fine with our current division structure if we had a 9th conference game and a permanent OOC matchup against Tenn or aTm (not WVU, please).
There is nothing objectively better about a North-South alignment, other than a slight reduction in travel costs for most teams. Even then, we'd essentially be swapping out Duke for Wake (comparable), GT for Louisville (comparable) and UNC for Syracuse (definitely not comparable at all). No thanks.
I'm against the 9th conference game because of the unbalanced schedules it creates. With eight, you have 4 home and 4 away games in-conference every year.
To expand a little further, if anything the permanent crossover game needs to be done away with. With two crossover games you could have:
Year 1: @FSU, vs Wake
Year 2: @Syracuse, Clemson
Year 3: @NC State, BC
Year 4: @Wake, Louisville
Year 5: @Clemson, FSU
Year 6: @BC, Syracuse
Year 7: @Louisville, NC State
Thus playing everyone in the other division twice in a 7-year stretch and the majority of your players will get to see each team at least once in their 5-year span.
This week's imperialism map
How is our territory?
To shreds you say...
And the rest of the ACC?
To shreds you say...
2 things:
Your new avatar is awesome.
and
I think you and I have the same sense of humor.
Avert your gaze!!!
Don't look at it, keep your eyes shut!
So under this system we would still have our territory?
Yeah, I like this one, lets stay here
"I won't attack you in Blacksburg if you don't attack me in Charlottesville, let's work together to get the bonuses"
"Ok sounds good, ALL OUT ATTACK ON CHARLOTTESVILLE!"
"wtf!"
Obligatory
A little off topic, but that guy in the gif that flipped the table I would punch in the face not just because he was being rude but he could have damaged the cards that can be worth $1,000.
I highly doubt any of the cards on that table are worth even $100 on the secondary market.
Still though, it is a completely rude thing to do.
Also still though, IIRC the video was staged, and the player in question is known for his "rage-quits" like that.
The entire thing was staged.
I definitely loved all the reactions/commentary but still didn't get any ideas from you lot about the board!
I mean you weren't actually expecting any of us to really be useful were you?
Unfortunately the lower 48 doesn't make for the most exciting Risk board, there isn't much isolated land.
Some inspiration to consider:
1. For starters, brainstorm with this SB Nation story consisting of 25 maps of college football. Something might click.
2. Rather than trying to shoehorn the 65 teams into their current conferences, consider conference histories. You can google image search for conferences (both current and former) and come up with images for each like this one:
The current conference alignment is not the most geographically sensible alignment, nor will it lend to the best possible Risk board.
3. Play with the geometry a bit. If you make Michigan State and LSU your North and South poles (with Louisville as your geographic center), you can stretch a map that looks a bit like an 8 pointed star.
Similarly, you can play a bit with concepts like the "talent desert" west of the Mississippi; maybe come up with a Settlers of Catan concept for it. Or rather than include it in playable territory, treat it like an off-limits sea (Maybe the Great Salt Lake & Boulder are islands in this format).
4. It's possible that making the Mississippi an impassable border (except perhaps at the St Louis arch) and the Ohio River impassable as well (until you get to New York State) might make the game play more interesting.
^ This is the guy all you guys signed your name onto group work in high school but you know he did 80% of the project because you wanted to procrastinate.
Def some good ideas. I leaned towards morphing the map projection to shrinking th open west and expanding the eastern seaboard from crowding. In my head I was going to make some "choices" about historical geographical schools since we have a lot of dancing going around between the ACC/Big10/SEC/Big12. I definitely planned to use the appalachains and the Rockies as natural barriers to limit isolate the Midwest/west a bit so it's not as open to borders. The possibilities are always there to try some other concepts during off-season.
Well Done, 10pts to Ravenclaw