Talk:States of America 4 (Map Game)

Location of Front

 * At or near a nation's capital: 10
 * At or near a nation's main city: 9
 * Within a nation's heartlands: 7
 * At a nation's border: 5
 * In bordering enemy territory: 4
 * Enemy territory on same continent: 3
 * Enemy territory on nearby continent: 2
 * Other side of the world: 1
 * Antarctica: 0

Strategic Bonus

 * Defender's bonus: 2
 * Nuclear arsenal: 5
 * Use of nuke: -10

Strength

 * Number of Digits in Population
 * Number of years spent with military development in the last 10 years (20 turns)
 * Negative value of the number of years spent on expansion or wars in the last 10 years (20 turns)

Strength of your side

 * M for nations that send military aid (+3), S for nations that send supplies (+2), O for occupied territories or subordinate territories (-1) and then W for withdrawal (-1).
 * e.g. China (M), Zhuang Warlords (MOW), Japan (M), Korea (MW), Hawaiian rebels (MO), USA (SW), creating a score of 12

Chance

 * A random number on random.org between 0 and 19 (BE TRUTHFUL)

Defensive (only avaliable if you are losing in the total of all other sections)
​Offensive (only if your side is winning the total of all other sections)
 * Life or Death (country's other motive value will result in total collapse): 12
 * Heartlands threatened ( country's other motive value will result in loss of 10% of the heartland) : 10
 * Territory threatened: 5
 * A Matter of National Security (nation is threatened by other nation militarily): 9
 * Social (similar ethnicity in another nation is persecuted): 8
 * Moral (other nation is collapsing or majorly unstable): 7
 * Economic (for monetary gain): 6
 * Political (must defeat rival nation): 4

Final Calculation

 * (X/(X+Y)*2)-1= the percentage of the losing territory lost; where X is the winning value and the losing value is Y

Other

 * To topple a nation you must take (100/X+1)% of the nations territory where X is the number of open fronts.