User blog comment:Batmanary/A New Map Game?/@comment-1589986-20110509004540/@comment-1825654-20110509011450

In real life, some countries were given a better hand than others: The British Empire for one. Having a player-country model results in the same implausibility as what was going on in the Civil War Map Game, which seems to be starting again with the UBS, but I digress. Having the alternative model keeps everyone in the game. No one is restricted from playing, and no one has to play every day. It also keeps people from quitting, which happens when a country is annexed or puppeted in the player-country model.