Going first offers too much of an advantage

[Hoover85]

My opinion. The starting player gets to set the tone for the whole game and in a match up of relatively equal skill (I play the same person regularly) the starting player wins 75%+ of the time.

I know this is an old game now and nothing will change but I feel the second player should have started with some extra gold or something to offset this advantage.

[silentProtest]

sure in vanilla game, it should be offset. but it wont here, since there isnt an option to mod. Also there is a HUGE topic about this on this forum

If you want a balanced, but/also a more complex and dynamic experience, try 7wd with both expansions [I can guarantee you that being first wont matter, and skill will decide WAY more than luck.]

[T72on1]

sure in vanilla game, it should be offset. but it wont here, since there isnt an option to mod. Also there is a HUGE topic about this on this forum

If you want a balanced, but/also a more complex and dynamic experience, try 7wd with both expansions [I can guarantee you that being first wont matter, and skill will decide WAY more than luck.]

Adding to that, even playing with the Agora expansion alone reduces this issue to almost zero in my opinion. I don't know the other expansion enough to comment on that one.