The West Indies and other countries can be liberated without control of many "required" provinces. Bug? Or are the rules different for "conquerors"?

[alexvk3bqn]

As I've mentioned before, some countries can be liberated if you only control a few of the provinces usually needed.

Usually, as I understand it, the provinces required are those listed in the "revolts.txt" file.

Sometimes though, there can be major differences between the listing there, and the actual provinces required.

I have found this out by "buying up" provinces to release countries.

The West Indies appears to be one of the most extreme variations from the "revolts.txt" file.

Is there another file used to decide which countries can be released, and which provinces are needed, or is it a bug?

Or are the rules involved in releasing countries different for countries that have bought or captured some of the provinces involved?


For the West Indies, Trinidad is listed as a compulsory province, AND is listed as the capital.
It is also far too valuable for you to ever be able to buy.
You don't need it to release the country.


This picture shows in white all the provinces you actually need to own to release the West Indies as a nation.
(You don't even need the province of Jamaica, which can be released as a separate independent country.)

When you do, it makes territorial claims, and even demands (and gets) Puerto Rico from the American Government.

There are also inconsistencies in which liberated countries will have territory they claim transferred to them, although my best guess there is that ex-axis held territory will most probably be eventually returned while a lot of other disputed territory remains under the control of others,


Alexvk3bqn.

 

[MartinBG]

Here is the entry for East Indies:

 U79 = { # West Indies
 date = { day = 0 month = january year = 1940 }
 expirydate = { day = 29 month = december year = 1999 }
 minimum = { 1770 1763 1764 1769 1758 1782 1759 }
 extra = { 1755 1761 1772 1752 1760 1753 1754 1757 1766 1767 1768 1774 1765 1762 1771 }
 capital = 1758
 revolt = no
 intrinsic_gov_type = social_liberal
 }

All rules on how revolt.txt are used for releasing a country are described in the header of the file, but here is the relevant to this report part:

# value = X.X (0.0 – 1.25)             # Used by the old release model only (when no min or min_extra are defined).
#    When 'score' is above that value the country will be available for release (see below for details). By default (no value) it is 0.51.
#    A country will be available for liberation if it has at least 0.51 final score (can be changed - see above).
#    Capital province gives 0.25 and (available minimum provinces / total minimum) provinces gives the rest.
#    Claims, cores and current capital of the liberator are excluded from the above calculation!
#    If minimum list is empty, but extra is not, then extra list will be used in place of the minimum. Otherwise extra list is not used.

There are 7 provinces in minimum list and from the screenshot we see that released country has 4 of them, so:

4 / 7 = 0.57

0.57 > 0.51 -> the country is available for release