Re: Rivers ???
If you want river to be provinces, draw a new map or alter an existing one to have those white "capital dots" at the right places, and voilą - there are your river provinces.
Link them up to the other provinces properly via neighbour command, and you're ready to go.
If you only want to be able to "go upriver" from some sea provinces, simply set up a connection between the sea province and the inland lake in question.
There was a Dom2 map which did both: Karan
And what about the random map generator you might ask?
The 'river' shown on those maps are nothing more than an visual clue that the province is marked as "fresh water". As this is a property of the province, you can't split it off into another province to make a river from that.
One might argue if aquatic creatures shouldn't be able to travel through "fresh water" provinces, but I guess that would be too much hassle to programm and have too little effect to be worth it.
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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