Sudden Increase in Victory Points

[Belphegor]

Post-patch. Server game. Nov 27, 43
This last turn I got +20vp. It appears mostly from city points. But I didn't take any new cities. And all the air has been grounded for weather so hasn't done much bombing.
Posting here because I can't figure out why this should be. I can't find any line in the patch that suggests this. Can anyone help explain?


edit: I see a similar jump in city points in my other games.

[Helpless]

Date adjust could have impact on the city VPs.

a. Rule change – Victory Conditions (section 25.1.1) – The SBP (Strategic Bombing Points) Date adjustment divisors have been changed to the following: 1943: 2, Jan-Jun 1944: 6, Jul-Dec 1944: 9, 1945: 12 in order to increase Allied bombing points scored. These are intended to offset the changes made below that would otherwise lower Allied bombing points.

[Belphegor]

Oh! Missed that one totally. Thanks

[Joel Billings]

Yes, you'll notice the biggest impact is in 1943, where you are getting triple the points that you used to get. We did this for a few reasons. First, in most cases it's harder to cause as much damage as you used to to factories due to various other changes. Second, we wanted player's to have a strong incentive to risk their a/c in 1943 when they have less escorts available. So in the chance to score more is there, but it's harder to cause the damage. This difficulty in causing as much damage also means you will have to bomb the U-boats and V-weapons a little more often in order to avoid losing points for those factories. We hope that the way we've done the points will give players some interesting choices to make.