User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/Map Games VS Timelines/@comment-1593341-20120207002816/@comment-1593341-20120207070318

One bonus to the "open" map games is that if one player is being incredibly implausible, the other players can use their turns to bring things back around. That happened quite a bit in the Europe 1430 game. One editor would have a king die and suddenly the country was under control of a tyrannical dictator going on a rampage of conquest, the next would point out that that country was in fact a constitutional monarchy with most power in the hands of parliament, civil war would ensue, etc. The major problem with "open" games though is that a lot of people still just want to wank one country and don't take the rest into account and ignore the edit history.