Nieuw Standaard : An alternative standard scenario

[Christine]

this scenario is based uppon the std scenario. I added new countrys ans new majors, modified the USA and england and so on.

majors:
england (lowered ship costs, 2 new islands [orkney and mainland])
germany (new factory, and a new land: bavaria)
france (dplitted normandy and brittany)
usa (rised army costs, modified territory)
japan
russia
italy
spain
ottoman empire
austria-hungary

new neutrals:
balticum
netherlands
finnland
danmark
poland
tibet
jemen
oman
dakota
navarra


EDIT:
maybe the goal could be intresting:
I always wanted to have more majors in the game, so I added them. But I get the problem that the european nations havnt enogh room to expand in europe. So I added some more neutrals.
Game balancng:
I balanced the majors by there historical power. For example: it will be really hard to play as ottoman empire.



_______At/Def__At/Def_Army/Navy
________Army____Navy___Costs
England___1/1_____1/1____6/2
Germany__1/2_____1/2____4/4
France____3/2_____3/3____3/5
USA______3/2_____2/2____4/5
Japan ____2/3_____2/2____3/5
Russia____4/3_____3/4____2/5
Ottomans_4/3_____3/3____3/6
Spain ____2/2_____2/1____4/5
Italy _____2/3_____2/2____4/4
Austria___2/2_____3/3____3/6


EDIT:
- corrected zipfile added


EDIT: Changes in this version (6. jul 2012)
new countrys:
tibet
jemen
oman
dakota
mainland (island, english territory!)
orkney (island, english territory!)
navarra
california
white russia (russian territory!)

Modified the AI in costs, amry/navy stregths and there their attacks go to and the way the AIs handling the navy/army attack ratio)

modified the mountains (added a way from india to china (kashmir to sinkiang))
modified greece and balkans (now bulgaria!). Connected greece to turkey and deleted the conection betwen bulgaria and turkey.

AI changes:
russia gets stronger
usa gets stronger
england is nearly everytime a powerfull major (but never won a test game)

bugfix:
- in some cases the 3 ottoman empires mainlands get filled as there it only one land. I dont know why the country borders get lost, but after altering 2 pixels in arabia, the problem seams gone.
- corrected the region ids of the new countrys


EDIT:
Update from 7. jul 2012.

- Altered the mountains in asia
- new neutral provinces:
hong kong
NL New Guinea
Germ. New Guinea
Arwa
Choiseul
guadalcana
new caledonia
samoa
sakhalin
tasmania
auckland
new zealand
greenland

- bugfix: tibet is now a part of the right area
- connected 1 boat who issnt connected in the std scenario (north alaska)
- created a new region
- gave the regions some nice names

EDIT:
new version from 14. jul 2012
- Altered the AIs rand attack id
- altered the mountains
- connected japanese homelands
- added a areafill for puerto rico
- strengthen france (more troops, ship costs, picardy added)
- connected ireland to the british mainland
- corrected refill in new caledonia (161)

Added new Regions (in total: 12):
- South Europe
- North Europe
- Sahel Africa

New Countrys:
Africa:
Mali
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Guinea
Ivorycoast
Tschad
Cameroon
Equatorial Africa
Gabun
Zimbabwe
Kenia
Uganda
Eritrea
Taomasina
Ghana
South America:
TheSouth
Liga Federal
Entre Rios
Amazonas
North America:
Nunavut
South Ampton
New Foundland

update 15 jul 2012:
fixed ethiopias bordercolor from 000000 to 010101

Update 16. Jan. 2014:
- fixed area links in south america and australia
- removed the unneedet zones
- corrected the fill in turkey



update from 22. Jul 2015:
general:
fixed some area fills (Denmark, Quebec. New Caledonia, Hawaii, Newfoundland)
fixed witch region the AI likes to conquer

north america:
removed link between north usa / east usa
added "the land of the florida" (Bush Jr. ) aka texas
added michigan
added northwest territories
added yukon
added Labrador
added florida
changed name from new foundland to quebec [continental]
changed name from quebec to Newfoundland [island]

asia:
added khabarovsk (to russia)
linked kyushu to korea
changed region from steppes from india to chinasia
removed link between honshu and hokkaido
added north kuriles
added south kuriles

Australia:
added victoria

europe:
removed link beetween norway and finnland
added link between denmark and sweden
added 2. fill in denmark to include island of sealand (Copenhagen)

africa:
removed link between uganda and abyssinia

Major powers:
USA:
added capital in michigan
added 3 new states (florida, michigan, texas)
reduced treasury from 10 to 5

England:
removed mainland (island in the north)
reduced in london army by 20
reduced in london navy by 20
reduced treasury from 50 to 40
increased base armys to left

japan:
added link between kyushu and korea
removed link between honshu and hokkaido
increased army in honshu by 100
increased navy in honshu by 20
increased army/nav< in hokkaido and kyushu al little bit
increased treasury from 30 to 60

russia:
added new capital in khabarovsk
reduced army/navy in sibiria (40/20)
increased army/navy in khabarovsk (130/35)
increased navy in moskva by 10
reduced treasury from 20 to 15

germany:
increased treasury from 40 to 45
increased base armys to left
slightly increased base army size


Gamebalancing facts
After 15 testrounds (ai only) the statistics are:
________________Otto, USA,Rus, Kuk, Eng, Ger, Jap, Fr
1.greatest power: 1___0___ 4___3 ___0___4____1___2 times
2.greatest power: 0___9___ 0___0 ___5___0____0___0 times
3.greatest power: 0___5___ 0___0 ___6___0____1___0 times

Italy and Spain get lost in the game.
USA will be more powerful, the longer the game is going on
England won 0 games, but it is mostly one of the favorite powers.

Maybe Ill doing some more balacing later.


Update 2015/07/26:
Added link between Alaska <-> Yukon <-> Brit- Colombia

[dizt3mp3r]

Just trying it out now!

But... it doesn't work for me, moving the zipfile into the custom maps folder fails wit a screen full of errors so long I can't even read the end of it as it is way off the bottom of the screen. I notice a patterns.png possibly missing from your zip?

Next trying to merge the existing standard with the files provided to see if that helps.

[dizt3mp3r]

I've figured out what it was. When you zipped it, you used winzip and preserved your folder structure. I unzipped to a folder and then used Windows internal right click - "send to compressed (zipped) folder"functionality. This creates a zipfile and does not store any location information.

Updated version attached. This one should work.

[Christine]

I did this because CoCoNet displays the folder name as an scenario name. But if somebody will rename it...

[dizt3mp3r]

Not quite, it is the folder structure within the zipfile that is unnecessary, if you open your zip you'll see the extra folder info, not required.
Try my version that I attached, you'll see it works, your original one just didn't.

Your map plays well, lots going on, it needs to be played with the AI on difficult settings as the AI spends a lot of time bickering with itself in Europe (what's new?!) . You can easily pick off the major powers in Europe whilst they fight themselves to the death, just pick on the weakest. If difficulty levels are maximised it makes it just as difficult as the other AI players to survive.

Only problem with the map was that the Ottoman Empire home territory colour did not change when the territory was taken by another power. Apart from that the map works.

[Christine]

Interessting... I've thought it were just the same as "pack me some files to unpack to folder bla", but you're right. Well.. Im not really fammilar with windows and its tools.

ottoman empire:
Ive tested it before I released the scenario. And I tested it just in that moment with: germany, england, italy, russia. It just works fine on my machine. O_o curious....

[dizt3mp3r]

Regardless it is good and it works! The first map from the community.

[TCMgenX]

Hi there,

well both files didn't work for me. Any suggestions?

[dizt3mp3r]

@TCMgenX What did you do, describe?

[Christine]

I updated the scenario and edited the first posting.

[dizt3mp3r]

@Christine, that was meant for TCMgenX, I was asking him what he had done to get the scenario in place. Need a bit of information in order to help him.

[Christine]

Oh yes, and I totally agree with you so I dont write an answer myself. The posting was only to say that I altered the scenario, but maybe I should update the posting (and scenario file) first and THEN posting that I changed thous things... I just thought that other wouldnt notice my posting that fast.

[dizt3mp3r]

Played your scenario yesterday as Austria Hungary and won! Quite a challenge.

[Christine]

Oh yes, the new majors are hard to play. I'll play with the ottomans up next. Their are the most difficult to play.


BTW... I think I know what TCMgenX means:
in some cases you need up to 10 secounds to click "host", after selecting the scenario. I reported this bug some days ago, but I believe that the time you need to wait is depending on how big the scenario file is. In the last 2 trys 6 secounds where'nt enough.

[TCMgenX]

I tried to wait, but i got an error.

I've put the file in custom map folder. I see it when i select custom game......

Any help would be appreciated!