@CrazyG Another way to have some variety is to spread out some of the worthless territories and then create "Regional Zones" that give a PU bonus once all the territories are captured.

The nice thing about this is you can manage the overall PU distribution better and there don't become hugely potent individual territories. So while a nation may get a PU boost... no one territory becomes overly valuable.

The other nice thing is this will give individually worthless territories a strategic value. You may even find players fighting doggedly for worthless territories because of what they represent to the greater war effort.

I don't like it at all. It's horrible!

@CrazyG said in CrazyG's Big World War One:

I added a teaser image to the first post.

I'm adding Cernel's trains (I need a yellow one too).
Trying to get a working download.

Redrum should have a nice yellow train.

"Blood in the Mud"

@CrazyG Or rather... 1914; Edge of Insanity
(Afterall... the creator is crazy... no one said he was actually insane)

@CrazyG 1914: The Age of Insanity

(Trying to give a knod to the author's unstable nature.... as well as the era)

@Schulz said in CrazyG's Big World War One:

Actually ww1 was more balanced than ww2 and it is possible to make relatively balanced and historical great war scenario. The Centrals would have won if Germany had taken Paris regarsless of date. Even If Germany had knocked France out of war in 1918, Allies would sue peace since Normandy style liberating France would be unimaginable. The Allies did even fail to knock out the Ottomans out of war by naval invasion.

Even Italian neutrality could bring Central victory. With Italy, Centrals would achieve definitely total victory.

Another problem is Italy and Romania could have joined the Centrals and hard to represent it in Triplea Engine. But USA would always join Entente regardless of the Zimmerman telegram or unrestricted submarine warfare.

I agree the Ottomans are represented way too strong. But the problem is if you make the Ottmans 1/10 Germany then Entente would take the Ottomans within a few rounds but in reality they would only do it after 4 years with Arab rebels. In this scenario you will have to give thr Ottomans so much defensive bonuses since Gallipoli isn't the only Ottoman victory. Ottomans did win more battles such as First battle of Gaza or battle of Kut etc.

Simply taking the Ottomans should not be too easy realistically.

Slow clap for @CrazyG

@CrazyG I still have all the files... so if you want the reliefs changed to reflect different passibility variances from HOH.

Otherwise I am just excited to see what you have in store for us!

@Schulz You can see how I am handling them when this is released. But I assure you there will be no willy-nilly sea mine placements in this game.

@Black_Elk Now I preface this by saying I am no expert on the engine... but the real issue I think is that most of what you are suggesting hits a massive road block by virtue of the fact that the turn order is controlled by fixed settings within the XML that are not easily changed. And by my rudimentary understanding on the topic, it would appear to me that introducing this in a clean manor would require new code to be implemented and be engine breaking. ie. requiring a compatibility breaking release.

Now given what Rolf was able to achieve in this area with Feudal Japan... I imagine that this could be possible with a couple of user actions which would fire at the beginning of a game and then a series of triggers... but I have no skill in the area with which to provide you with a specific course of action to get to your goal.

Otherwise I like what you are saying.