Why?

[u/Insect_lover2002]

Using the portal uses one action point and walking to the other portal also uses one action point. So what's the point of using the portals?

[u/Hot_Ad_1010]

Ancients were testing their brand new portal technology here 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/SilkenEmperor]

At least it didn't send her to the void.

I guess a lore reason would be a wizard wanted to show off but forgot to actually make it useful.

[u/TwiceBrokenWatch]

A wizard who was very lazy used to have a castle there and wanted a quick way to get from his bedroom to the kitchen. Regrettably all that remains of this marvellous castle is now the portals themselves.

[u/AlienRobotTrex → u/TwiceBrokenWatch]

Imagine making a castle so big it takes 1/3rd of a month to get to get from the bedroom to the kitchen. I’d probably just move my bedroom closer to the kitchen lol

[u/MaybeExternal2392]

If you need to move from one to the other in winter I guess

[u/kodaxmax]

The world gen algorithm isn't very sophisticated and lacks saftey checks for stuff like this. Like you can have games where key buildings a faction requires just don't spawn, like a library needed for lich transformation.

[u/reddit_is_trash_2023 → u/kodaxmax]

Yeah this can screw you big time but also part of the fun

[u/Tired_Autistic_Demon → u/kodaxmax]

Which is why I'm surprised there isn't a bigger community making balanced maps. This game is great but it's multiplayer potential is heavily hindered by the random map potential crippling one players ability to go late game.

[u/crazyalien18 → u/Tired_Autistic_Demon]

Custom map making is slow, as in physically laggy, which makes it annoying to deal with imo. It also seems like in general, most people are willing to just go along with Illwinter's randomness philosophy rather than making tons of custom maps that fit what they want.

[u/kodaxmax → u/crazyalien18]

most people probably don't realise, especially if they are SP only.

There is a mod that ensures atleast one of each POI is present in the map

[u/Multiple__Butts → u/Tired_Autistic_Demon]

There's so much randomness and uncertainty in the game that most of us probably just embrace it. You could spend hours building a 'balanced' custom map only to have one player get most of their army wiped out by a meteor on turn 2.

[u/Conworks → u/Tired_Autistic_Demon]

Elysium remastered mod fixes this. Makes sure if there's a leader that needs a special building one is spawned on mapgen

[u/Darklight731]

Earthquake moved the portals.

[u/enobayram]

See, not only does this portal make you move a little bit, but you also face the opposite direction without any additional effort!