Balance in HotA.

I spent the whole night thinking about Vika's previous post: on one hand, the restructuring significantly reduces variance, but on the other hand, it really does diminish the spectacle and the game only starts when players gain full control. But still, I would prefer less spectacle to running around the entire map, fighting for all the scrolls, and getting frustrated because there is no control in two Dragon Utopias and three Hives, and nothing else on the map. And the opponent got a Hive and a Dragon Utopia in the first round.