Flypurplehamster, yes, I am. Are you the Flypurplehamster from serious discussion?

As for supposed bullshit facts, I've learned there is a highway in Karelia (Northwestern Russia) and none in Oulu/Eastern Finland, because it's faster to go through Karelia if you want to reach Lapland from Southern Finland.

I learned to entire layout of Europe, and it just helped me pass my exam.

I've learned there is a Montana in Bulgaria too.

I've also learned that if the Roman Empire had ever lost even a single key territory, it would not have been able to build as many legions as it did.

I've also learned the problems of supplying your armies and keeping the soldiers healthy enough to fight have been very much exaggerated in historical accounts. Armies are only ever destroyed as a result of fighting after all.

And that whole thing about Britannia ruling the waves... Please. What waves? They aren't important. You just have lines crossing them here and there. Only land areas matter.

:)

I learned that it’s impossible to cross the Straits of Hormuz.

Also, Siberia is the most important place ever.

@Darkruler2005: I most certainly am.

In Poland big map, Katowice - Powiat Bedzinski (Slaskie) connection is missing.

E88, kind of a random thread to be posting that in..

there should be a complatians forum

when you are making a map, you can assign number of armies per turn up to 2147483647.

I have learned that Crete is right next to Alaska! Who knew? (Big thanks to Chaos, BTW)

Warlight's First Law: x/y > 1

Where:

x = the amount of time it takes me to check the settings
y = the amount of time it takes for open seats to fill

@Muppet

That is so true!

Here's Warlight's second law:

y=x/100

Where:

x = The chance of an attack succeeding that the analyse window gives.
y = The actual chance of that attack succeeding.

@Moros:
If you also use the analyse window to figure out how many defenders you need to withstand an attack from your opponent (I do all the time, that's why I also included it in my custom analyser; still working on debugging it), that's actually a good thing. :p

A while ago I read the following somewhere:

A 50/50 chance never happens, a one-in-a-million is a sure thing.

That seems to apply here as well!

(In truth, if you do the calculations, it looks like Fizzer got the chances perfectly right, it's just the human mind which is horrible at dealing with statistics; that's what makes it sometimes "feel wrong" when it's actually okay.)

I learned that not only are famous dead dictators still alive, they are quite active in forum discussions!

Trying quite hard not to disprove Godwin, here....

I know, I was just acting silly...
Who knows a good Third Warlight Law?

I learned that most people want to be born (1st picks) in Russia, Central America, Asia and Scandinavia. Living in Africa seems nice too. Europe and the US? Not so popular though.

In Europe, clearly nobody wants to live in Germany.

As for my native country: Apparently it is advantageous to keep Flanders and Wallonia together in Europe, something not all politicians in my country are convinced of.

Also, trying to get something done in Belgium and the Netherlands is a lot of work. Mapmakers who try to do so are very similar to the politicians trying to make the decisions. A lot of talking, passed deadlines without a finished product, but in the end it's a nice place to live / a great looking map. ;-)

You have just dug to the core, the essence, the axiom of so many things in the world.

Another thing I learned from Warlight: Grundie is Australian slang for underpants.

In the Europe map, bonus links are 15x16, not 16x16.

In Europe, clearly nobody wants to live in Germany.

I wouldn't say that it's about that. It's just that Germany is one of worst bonuses at the beginning at Europe map.

As about the topic, I learned a lot about Europe and Africa geography, but I still need to learn a bit about Asia. Well, these all Chinese names are kind of... hard to remember. And yes, I know that Chinese is not the only language spoken in this part of Asia.

So, is E88B3EC Arun's other account? Who else digs up months old forum posts?

I would say definatively yes, with one exception... he only made one post, not 5