@ramon Changing the reliefTiles is difficult when you do not have the overlay that the game used. You can actually modify individual tiles, but it is not recommended if the change is across multiple tiles. Assuming that this is the case, you'd need to use the baseline image, change the borders there, and then break it using the tile image breaker. Then, you'd need to open the reliefmap by combining it using the tile image reconstructor. Also open the modified baseline map so that you can see what borders you removed and where the new borders are. To remove borders from the reliefmap, you can do the following. In the images you sent, you can see that the color of the territories isn't empty, it has a black-ish (or white/gray-ish in the other) color with a very low opacity. Try selecting this as color and remove the borders using this color. If you use GIMP, you can select the color using CTRL+click when having the pencil tool selected. Do not make it transparent as you did, that will make the territory shade go away completely. You should not be using the eraser at all, only the pencil tool. To draw new borders, you can select the white border color and use it to draw the new borders. If you lower the opacity of the baseline map and put it above the reliefmap, you can see the new borders and you can trace them. Then you can use the heal tool to make the borders and territory colors look more like the rest of the reliefmap, with different shades of colors. This doesn't necessarily make it look nice though. Even if you do your best, you will still probably have spots with a different shade than the rest of the map, but it's better than nothing. One small tip is to past the reliefmap not once several times in GIMP, so that you have like 10 identical layers. This will increase the opacity of the reliefmap. If you then combine all these layers, you essentially have increased the opacity. This allows you to actually see everything properly. You'd still need the heal tool to make the colors blend into each other better. Then you can lower the opacity of the layer so that it is around the same as the original reliefmap. Last option is to create your own relief tiles using your own overlay. This might be a lot of work but it would ensure that the map looks nice.

@husky81 So now you have your initial baseline results, Im hoping for now, that you stop using your Tokens verses Hard-AI, Easy-AI and Does Nothing, and just concentrate on using them, against Fast-AI ? What are your plans for testing for improvements to Claude-AI ?

@xxXEddieXxx Version numbers are important to some people/map makers, to most not. Here are some milestone version numbers 2.5.22294 this cover most A&A maps and most older maps, 100s maps 2.7.14848 uses isAI, for making the AI appear better, but the map maker is really doing this, 10ish maps, I would say the better solo maps. 2026-09.16.15791 Allows construction upgrades to be placed within construction limit, 1ish map The last one, will be a new map we/I are releasing soon. See here, for a glimpse of above, look for version numbers. https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides Here is a TripleA feature list https://triplea-game.org/release_notes/ Here is the effort over the years to fix things https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues The number to look at is [image: image.jpeg] The 5870 issues raised/closed, some of these issues are because players are on old an version and should of upgraded and many other reasons. Here is what I would do, pick a TripleA version greater than 2026-09.16.15791 and tell us what that is, and say twice a year upgrade your mobile version, then you dont really have to bother with version numbers, as we know if the map will work or not based on the desktop version.

This game has some seriously weird and wrong behaviours and unsupported rules for ships. I'm trying to address them. More information here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/15013

@RogerCooper said: more sense to have the executive module set a broad plan and then the other modules figure how to execute the plan. I was thinking that the plan would be more emergent rather than preset if it was set by local processes, but maybe you're right. I will try both ways. The issue with global plannig i think will be getting the nescessary information to the executive and have it analyze that info appropriately without just simulating all possibilities (which isn't possible.) My account is drained of tokens now, so progress is on temporary hiatus.

@ubernaut cloudflare is comprehensive, IIRC you can toggle it so any new IP needs to do a captcha style challenge first. If we get attacked for real, then setting up cloudflare would likely be the only thing to restore the forum. OTOH, our data is what most people really want, I doubt very many really want to simply DDOS TripleA

@panther said The fact that the installation now went flawlessly shows, that the MS service behind is 'learning'. I agree. I am inclined to think that it is based on the number of downloads Microsoft has in its SAC database, too few and it is a risk, enough and it passes. So from our point of view, we will need to keep a SAC viable downloads list @cowey To confirm, please find out your friends TripleA version, I will guess it is 2026-10.16.15815 ? Just need the last 5 digits, so its probably 15815

@GREGOREK Yah, scrolling both edges sure is cool. I wish this could be possible in an actual (spherical) world (like ours) with some sort of projection, but unfortunately it is not (as far as I know).

Updated to 2.63 [image: Screenshot from 2026-09-25 20-20-09.png]

@beelee I would suggest erasing the flags which is easy to do in Paint. There is no reason to have flags in unit images, as you can turn flags on with View/Flag Display/Small.

@TheDog thanks

It seems very interesting. A lot of posts yesterday but you must be working on it since you were born !

@VictoryFirst I replaced all references to "placeNoAir" to "place" and added <attachment foreach="$All-Players$" name="rulesAttachment" attachTo="@All-Players@" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="placementAnyTerritory" value="true"/> </attachment>

@craigviau Nice you got it working xml work can be frustrating, unless you were born with a large amount of patience I try to look at it as a puzzle anymore, as opposed to wanting to throw my computer down the driveway lol PactofSteel2 xml is still the best information source, next to wc

@VictoryFirst You need to keep in mind that A&A combat consists of a number of interlocking pieces and that changing one can throw the balance off. It is unrealistic that a small force of infantry can stop a tank blitz but is even more unrealistic that battles run an unlimited number of rounds, that there is no retreat and the lack of supply rules. Making blitzing easier makes things hard for the Russians on the Eastern Front.