[The Panther]

Thanks for clearing that up, Alneyan. I read your post closer and understand it now.

Because I wanted graphs on (which helps for the people to see who is leading), then I was thinking of having the victory condition open also so everybody knows when someone is about to win. Without diplomacy, it will be much harder to cordinate an attack on the leader, but that is just part of the mystery of these settings. The graphs will help every player decide what to do to some extent.

You don't need preset starting spots because of the game option to select the box which says something like "1 VP per capitol". Doing this and setting all other VPs to zero produces 17 VPs on the map (1 per capitol). Then all that must be done is to select 9 VPs to win and everything is easy. What I did not know was if the map had the VPs built into the provinces or was just an added line in the map file. I do infer from your post above that it is nothing but a few lines in the code to be removed. I am at work right now so I cannot check this, but I sure take your word for it being easy.

A final problem might be the starting location selection. I remember just how lousy the starting spots were on the Blade game under Version 2.16 and I still don't know the cause of that. We may encounter the same problem and Pasha could have significant work trying to get the starting spots to work fairly.