Finding a solution to France, Germany and the Maginot line is not easy.
1. As long as there are VP's in those particular provinces the French AI will do it's best to defend them.
2. But, since VP's are "special" to the AI, the German AI will
always choose them as theatre objectives when they're at war with France.
3. "special" means that all VP's are used to tell the AI where to defend and where to attack towards. note: I'm not positive, but I think the AI now(FtM) also uses Strategic Resources for this same purpose.
4. So, the only way to fix this problem would be to remove all VP's from the Maginot line(simple enough) and somehow code the French AI to defend those provinces regardless(I'm not sure this is even possible). Otherwise, we just have to deal with it.
5. VP's, since they're so important to the AI, I think their distribution needs a major overhaul, worldwide. ie. provinces in the middle of nowhere with nothing to offer(MP/LDR/IC/Resources) should not have VP's. All capital cities, ports, major cities, historical battlefields(ie. tobruk, kursk), Suez/Gibralter/Panama/Oresund and resource(not SR's)/MP/LDR/IC provinces should have at least 1 VP. The more important the province, the more VP's it recieves.
6. Also, I think some adjustment needs to be made to where and how much some IC/LDR/MP is/is not located. ie. When a place like Tenerife has MP/LDR and Khabarovsk does not, theres something amiss. Or, How about MP/LDR/IC in Portage la Prairie, but nothing in Montreal(the biggest industrial center in Canada during the era). Oh, and India has far to much British IC, I think some of that needs to be moved to the Isles. I'd say make India((including Pakistan) market liberal) and Egypt(absolute monarchy) British puppets and re-adjust the whole lot (this would serve another purpose as well).
7. Strategic Resources placed in/or blocked by provinces with only 1 infra serve absolutly no purpose if the AI(production lua, not country specific) is not coded to research and then build infra in those particular provinces as well. If you switch the building activation of Construction Engineering(IC) and Advanced Construction Engineering(infra) it would help with this.
8. To many countries have infantry activation pre-set and are building infantry when they should be researching and building militia & garrison. The lower MP, officer and supply cost required means militia is better suited for minors. Infantry might be more effective, but if you don't have the IC, MP or supply to fully utilise them, then what good are they? On a similiar note, can something be done about South Africa? Oddly enough, It does not have infantry activation so it doesn't build infantry, but, it doesn't build militia, garrison or cavalry either. It does happen to have enough practical to have L Arm gifted to it, so it builds a dozen binary L Arm divisions or more.
9. Is it possible for someone to remove the aircraft techs from El Salvador, Saudi Arabia and Iraq and replace those with some militia techs or something they can actually use and build!?
Edit:
10. 7717-Panama(canal) & 7722-Colon(Panamanian capital), I think there was a small mistake made with these? Panama seems to be the only country in the world that doesn't have any MP or LDR but it does have a large VP value. A few of the provincial stats(bold/underlined) need to be switched between the two.
7717,
Code:
owner = USA
controller = USA
add_core = USA
add_core = PAN
[B][U]points = 1[/U][/B]
[B][U]anti_air = 2[/U][/B]
infra = 6
[B][U]air_base = 1[/U][/B]
[B][U]naval_base = 3[/U][/B]
[B][U]manpower = 2.00[/U][/B]
[B][U]leadership = 0.20[/U][/B]
1941.1.1 = {
radar_station = 1
}
7722,
Code:
owner = PAN
controller = PAN
add_core = PAN
[B][U]points = 5[/U][/B]
[B][U]anti_air = 3[/U][/B]
infra = 6
energy = 6
[B][U]air_base = 4[/U][/B]
[B][U]naval_base = 4[/U][/B]
11. 7637-Guantanamo, 7630-Santiago de Cuba & 7576-La Habana
- all provincial stats in Guantanamo should be transfered to Santiago de Cuba.
- Guantanamo should have 1 VP, a level 1 air base and a level 2-3 naval base and should be owned and controlled by the US during this era.
- Santiago de Cuba should have a level 1 naval base added to it.
- La Habana should have a level 2 air base added to it.
Edit 2:
- There's no adjacency between Trinadad and Tobago.
Whoops my mistake, I must of tried to click on that damn province about 12 times, it just didn't work. But, I just confirmed there is an adjacency and it does work. I must of been off about 1 pixel into the Gulf of Paria:wacko:
- The event effect "random_owned = {xx brigade}"
will generate brigades in level 1 infra provinces. Theres only one event I can see that uses this in vanilla FtM, but modders might make use of this elswhere and may encounter some problems.
