Rules (World Rivalries Map Game)

Basic Rules

 * One turn is a year.
 * Game Starts in 1490 CE.
 * One player per country, one player may choose a colony if the colony has more than 50 years and it's stable.
 * Game is archived every 15 years.
 * Be plausible, Australia won't be colonizable until 1740, and it will take at least 30 years to take it completely. However, small outposts are plausible, but no wide expansion until the said in-game date.

Expansion
Any nation has an Specific Expansion Rate, depending on their status, in civil disarray can expand by only five px, but nations in an stable stance can expand by eight px per turn and pending on how organized and powerful by 32 px per turn.

Region's expansion is, however, different

Example:

Siberia's expansion is only of two px per year before 1550.

Sahara's expansion is one px per year until 1680 unless a Revolution Bonus is taken in which it is five px.

Expansion in Central Asia is four px per year until 1700.

Colonization
Any nation with a coast to a water in which they can send ships to colonize or settle a region far from the nations mainland core regions and the Colonial Expansion will be specific pending on how much has nation been colonizing since the first colony was made one px is 50 sq km and in the first 7 years of expansion the colony can only expand 500 sq km then. Size per px is the total meaning that if you have four colonies your colonial rate must be of 250 sq km per each and not 1000 per each. However, nation's colonial expansion may be decreased if some sort of crisis or important conflict occurs (if France is annexed for a small period of time to Germany it loses some of its colonial rate or reverts to the previous stage of colonial expansion).

Vassals
You can vassalize a nation after a 5 year period of continuous attempts of bringing said nation to your ruling whether by force or by culture, the abilities of a Vassal state can rival to those of the main nation of your control, with only the exception that the colonial expansion you do with the vassal will be taken out of the main nation expansion rate.
 * Vassals - They can have colonies but under a perpetual five px expansion rate  or in the case of that the main nation posses two or more vassals with a coastline it can have more, five px per each vassal, either for the main nations use or for one vassal of theirs.
 * Vassals are basically forced to join war in the case of that the main nation joins, so if Per example France invades Burgundy, Navarre would have to join the war as well.
 * Vassal can have relatively independent status from their main nations with the difference of having an appointed ruler and some cultural influence from the main nation.
 * Vassals can have vassals, although the main nations may not have direct control and thus are more puppet states than vassals to the main nation.

Puppets
Puppet states are nations heavily influenced by one main nation, but that are not directly ruled by the main nation, or by an appointed leader, the puppets won't necessarily join the war of the main nation, and can have a colonial expansion rate of its own, but it can be given up to the main nation, this nations can easily fall out of someone's influence in a rather fast speed, they as well have some abilities
 * Puppets can be vassals of a vassal nation or occupied territories with selfproclaimed government, their military and culture may be very different from its parent nation.
 * Puppets colonial rates are the same of the main nations, and the puppet nations can't sell without retribution a colony or settlement unless gained in war or exchanged for other territories.
 * Puppets can't be controlled by the nations, so it may not aid its parent nation in war.

Algorithm
it means any conflict between one or two nations for an specific motive

Location

 * Isolated Nation: of the nation has not been contacted nor Explored previously and its Separated from the Attacker's Mainland or Homeland region by Different Seas and or if its Heavily defended (Island only) +10 for Defendant, -5 for attacker
 * Mountainous: if the nation Attacked(Defendant) is or present considerable amounts of Mountain Systems which in some way mean a difficulty for the attacker to invade,+9 For defendant, -5 for attacker
 * Flatlands: if a nation has a flat consistent surface or Easily takable land +8
 * on Enemy Soil: if the Attacking nation has troops in the Defendants territory, it can be accounted if there's civil disarray, or an intervention or a previous alliance with the Defendant nation Ex: French Troops in Spain to invade Portugal During the Napoleonic Wars +7
 * In the Country Within yours: if the Nation its been invaded by Enemy troops in the Borders +6
 * Nearby:Neighbouring country: the attacker has a Common Border with the Defendant +5
 * Desertic or Selvatic Environment: if the Defendant Nation has a Great amount of Desertic Regions or Forest and Selvatic Environment +5 for defendant, -5 for attacker
 * Island: the Homeland or War front is Situated in an Island, well defended yet already known or Explored Ex: Britain, +4, for defendant and -2 for attacker
 * on another landmass: if the attacker nation is situated in a whole different land mass, separated by One or More Water bodies ( Ex, Spain and the Aztec Empire's) +3 for defendant -1 for attacker
 * Bordering the Same sea: if the nation has a coastline with by example the Mediterranean, to the Coastline of the defendants, ex, France And Algeria attacker gets +2,
 * on the Other Side of the World: it means that if the attacker nation (say Great Britain) invades a nation on the Other side of the World (Say Qing Empire) the Attacker nation Receives -1 and the Defendant +1
 * Antarctica: if the Weather of the Invaded or Occupied Regions are or Present Low Temperature Ex. Russia

Strength

 * Side with greater Industry: it means more Infrastructure +10
 * Side with Greater Population: it means +8
 * Control of the Seas: it means that a Nation has Most if not all of its fleet in an specific sea or Coastal region (+6 For Defenders, +2 for attackers), + 0.3 per ship
 * Size of the Army: it means the Size of the pending on its Historical Supposed time army number of the era
 * Big Army +8 ( more than 100,000 men)
 * Huge Army +6 (80,000 to 100,000 Men)
 * Medium Army +5 (60,000 to 80,000 men)
 * Small Army +4 (30,000 to 60,000 men)
 * Tiny Army +3 (from 10,000 to 30,000 men)
 * Small states armies (City-states - 1000 to 10,000 men) +2
 * Allies in war: +5 per each ally in war, +4 in Vassals, +3 in Supplies,
 * Tired Military: -2


 * Development: 3 points per each infrastructure Economic and Military Build up done in the last 15 turns, and if the three are done 6 points (2 per infrastructure, 2 per economy and 2 for build up).
 * Expansion: -1 point per each turn invested in National expansion outside colonial.

Tactical Advantage

 * Attacker's advantage: +2 its Granted to the nations  that started the war
 * Defender's Advantage: +4 its granted to the nations on defendant position or attacked nations
 * Hard Lands: it means any land that Represents a Difficult (by any reason) that are not mainly environmental if not by the lack of paths or Infrastructure +6 for defendants -3 for attackers
 * Island +6: it means any Landmass separated from mainland (e.g., Britain from Europe)

Random

 * ==== there are two options for this: the normal Random number or a 2 digit code, divided between each other (e.g 5 / 6 = 0.83 = 8.3)====

Motive

 * Life or Death:+10 it means that the nation existence is threatened by an outside threat
 * Provoked:+8 it means that the nation its been attacked
 * Revenge: +7 it means a nation that its attacking an enemy to recover its "Honor"
 * Religious+7 (if its Religion Based)+4 if not: any campaign that face's peoples of two different religions
 * Social Moral:+6 if it enters the war due to some minory or Social group being attacked or to aid an Ally in war
 * Political:+5 to aid a similar-Friendly nation
 * Economical:+4 if the war is to gain a highly producing region of the enemy Empire
 * To gain land:+2 it means that the only motive is to gain  land or expand
 * To Gain Prestige:-4 it means the war is done for prestige in front of the World Powers
 * Subjugation: +1 Means that the motive is to make the other nation a vassal

Casus Belli
The Casus belli points are given to All states and can only be given one specific depending on the reasons ingame of the War, its similar to the Motive points but Specifically based in ingame information
 * Reconquest: +10 - it means any Campaign that Refers to one single nation facing another nation that Represents the Opposite or that are seen as enemy (Say the Caliphate of Cordoba and Castile or the Franks)
 * Crusade:+8 it means any Religious based assault at an Enemy of the Opposite religion (Ex Spanish-Venetian coalition against the Ottomans) of two or more Nations against one or more nations
 * Throne Claims:+6 - +2 ,Six if the Nation claiming the other's throne has actual grounds (say Aragon and Naples) +4 if the nation has no grounds at all,
 * Intervention:+5 it means any state intruding an ally or enemy state to Keep or aid the current Government (mainly used for Vassals or Allies in Civil war)
 * Self Defense: +4 it means if the nation is invaded or attacked by a enemy without reason
 * Imperial Manifesto: +4, it means any sort of Pro imperialist movement that portrays one nation as Superior to all
 * Irredentism-Nationalism: +2 though not Present in this specific era it can be said as any movement that enforces the believe to unify an ethnic group under one same banner (Say the French taking over the Gaul,Spain taking over Hispania and Venice doing the same with Italy)
 * No Casus Belli: -2, it means that if there's no real reason outside pure expansionism the player will be given -2 in the algorithm

Bonuses
Most nations have bonuses, and the policy will be that all the bonuses added up will be devided by a number between 1 and 3, and be decided by RNG. Decimal results will be used.

Total:

 * It means the result, the result will be ((60/(60+55)*2)-1) = 0.0434782 =4.35% of land can be taken by the attacker, by the way i would like to say that at difference that most of the other map games to topple the government there would only be needed 30% of land taken, and to vassalize between 23 to 25% of land and if a nation has faced a war where 21 % of its land has been taken but more than 10 years have passed even if you take the other 9% you can't annex the nation, because, depending on how strong was the nation prior, (Ex Eastern Roman empire during the Arabian invasion of North Africa) to the war, the government is likely to have already recover of the war, this is mainly to avoid a Over expansionism of Nations and to be as much plausible as possible, as well as to avoid powerful nations to be annexed by smaller nations just because they took the 30%
 * Another thing is, that a city-state, or a small state (Luxembourg - Venice) Can't annex a Local power, even if they get 30% this is to avoid the ottoman empire becoming Venetian or France falling to the Luxembourgish

Ottoman Caliphate

 * Location:Nearby +5, Mountainous -5,
 * Strength:Side with Greater Population +8, Huge army +6, tired military -2, Control of the Seas +2, Develop 0 (Ottoman Empire +5, Egypt +5)
 * Tactical Advantage: Attackers advantage +2
 * Random: 2/4:0.5 -- 5
 * Motive: To gain land +2
 * Casus Belli: No casus belli -2
 * Total:31

Dulkadir-Ramadanids Sultanates

 * Location:In the Country Within yours +6,Mountainous +9
 * Strength:Small army +4, Develop:+3, Allies (Dulkadir +5, Ramadanids +5)
 * Tactical Advantage: Defenders Advantage +4
 * Random:1/1 = 1.0 - 10
 * Motive:Life or Death +10, Ramadanids +5 to aid a friendly nation (two motives for the two nations)
 * Casus Belli: Self Defense +5
 * Total:66

Result
Like the Previous example, the war will last and the land taken will be, the important thing is that the algorithm is done considering any possible factor that may help or Make harder to defend a nation, this is to bring Plausible results to the game, in a war there can't be more than one motive, or more than one Casus belli
 * The war ends with ((66/(66+31)*2)-1) :0,360824 -- 36 % of the Ottoman Empire falls to the Dulkadir and Ramadanids Dynasty war lasts ((21*66)/31)=44.7096/8)5.5887*1.5) = 8,38305 -- the war last Eight years

Bonus
It means any Punctuation given to a nation after facing a Specific situation or given that it is in a Specific situation.
 * Revolution Bonus: it means a Special Bonus that is given to nation which have faced a Revolution that has Changed Entirely the Politics and Government that used to rule in it, e.g., The French Revolution, it gives a 1.5 multiplier to war algorithms.
 * Discovery Bonus: it means that its the First Nation to Discover and Unique previously an unknown landmass, e.g., Britain discovering Australia, it gives a 5 year exclusivity expansion over that territory and gives 15 points to any war algorithm for 5 years.
 * Republic Bonus: it means any nation that recently changed its government to a Republic it gives 0.5 multiplier plus to the result so E.g Britain gets 25+(25*0.5) = 12.5

Special Nations and War Rules
Nations that have proven to be unlikely to be taken have special bonuses, like the Byzantine Empire previous to the Fourth Crusade or the Frankish West Francia, in this case to take them over you would need a 55% of their land to be taken in one war or, in a series of war periods, this only applies either if the nation has withstand the time passing by (Byzantium) or if it has land that could not be taken by its enemies under religious beliefs (Arabia's Mecca for the Caliphates and Muslims, and the Papal States for the Christians)

As well a war may only last what the war is supposed to last. Any further fighting will only cause null points which mean you gain more war spent negative points without gaining more points to annex another nation, and to knock one nation out, by adding the current war score with the previous war score this war must be in the 8 year period right after the war ended. Otherwise the score would be taken as only one war.