GD 1938 - Renewed and improved

[ernieschwitz]

Generally speaking, the countries shouldn´t begin dropping in diplomatic points at all.

They start from 0 to around 600, and will drift some 0 to 20 points in a positive direction, each turn. They should never go above 1000. Since that would make then join the country that has 1000 points automatically.

I can´t see from the code how they should not have become allied with you if they in any way did go over 1000.

I also checked the stringlists, which they use to operate from, and they are all in order...

[Twotribes]

Well it hasn't.

[Twotribes]

Now Hungary won't join. They are over 1100 points. I really don't want to start over but this is nuts.

[ernieschwitz]

Yes, ... I have been thinking alot about this...

I hope to test out a theory.

[Twotribes]

Yugoslavia went to Italy by design, does that have anything to do with it?

[ernieschwitz]

Are you saying you edited the files?

In any case, can you send me your save game and the scenario file that you started the game from to me, at ernie at olympias dot dk

[Twotribes]

The only thing I did before starting the game was give supply to certain hqs and PP to all nations that are player owned. I used the bribe function card in game to get Austria to join Germany, Yugoslavia to join Italy, Netherlands to join Britain, Poland to join Britain Belgium to join France, Thailand to join Japan and Mongolia, estonia and Latvia to join the Soviets, working on the third still for the Soviets. Ohh ya I forgot about the neg and got Brazil to join the US.

[ernieschwitz]

Email recieved, and i´ll start looking at it now....

[ernieschwitz]

I discovered the error, and i have fixed it with a new file, the GD 1938 v200m. It is available in the download section.

The trouble was that i had used a <= operator instead of a >= operator. The difference becomes quite important when playing with percentages.

What it means is that all games currently ongoing have the following take-over rules:

When a country hits 800 diplomatic points it is almost certain to join that regime. If it is more than 800 points the chances dwindle by ½ percent pr. point, and when it reaches 1000 there is NO CHANCE of that country joining that regime. The points will build from there, and grow until they reach infinity. (This whole paragraf is the error that it causes).

New games will have rules as they are described in the introduction. That is at 801 there is ½ % chance a country joins you, and for each point above that there is another ½ %. Until they reach above 1000, and then it is automatic.

Sorry for any inconveniance this may cause.

[Twotribes]

When did turns become a month? I always thought they were 2 weeks?

[Twotribes]

Ok maybe they are 3 weeks now? Can't tell. But if you changed them based on the situation in the game I sent you. I cheated, a gave everyone lots of PP and supply to start.

[ernieschwitz]

They have always been 4 weeks.

[Twotribes]

In the newest version Japan can not build Battle cruisers or battle ships unless she researches battleship IV and battle cruiser II ( or rather I assume then as I haven't researched them yet.)

[ernieschwitz]

According to what Bombur told me long ago about this, this is as designed. The idea being that to get new battleships and such would require an investment in designing them. Hence the research being neccessary. The older battleships that existed were of obsolete design and would thus not be likely to be produced.