Oli: I'm still shocked and very impressed by how quickly you responded to these feature requests. It does suck big time to lose data, but keep up the good work!

What did Windows 10 do?

Works again now...
The largemap could need some more love, but this should work.
Will upload the variant tomorrow..

Thank you very much, Oli !

Oli did you save this time? ;)

@JECE seems like you got to start your first game here tomorrow :P

Yes...
PS: Variant is online: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=97
You need to select Europe1600 in the gamecreate, as it's not possible to start the shortnames with a number..
Will make a site-announcement tomorrow.

Wow ! Thank you very much, Oli ! As always, you have done a very impressive work !

I can see that the Sea Zone Caspian Sea has a name.
I can also see on the Map info that a Fleet can be in Caspian Sea.
But how could it move there ? Indeed, that Variant is not build anywhere, is it ?

I would happily play with someone, if your willing...

gameID=24961
Inaugural gunboat

I've made an inaugural PPSC normal press game at gameID=24962

Great work!

Retillion: The variant should not be build anywhere as far as I can tell. The Caspian sea zone is probably left over from the Realpolitik version Oli said he imported. That said, the Caspian is mentioned in the original map and in the province list the variant creator drew up.

Thank you, JECE.

Oli: This looks like it's just a painting error, but on the large map Pskov is shown as a supply center instead of Novgorod. I know that you mentioned that the large map was still imperfect. I'll keep an eye out for other details.

Retillion: The variant creator mentioned the following on the original outdated homepage "making it possible to the otherwise landlocked powers of Poland and Russia to build fleets." Therefore, at the time of writing, the game was not build anywhere. Unless the game was switched to build anywhere in a late iteration, I don't see how a fleet could make it to the Caspian Sea. It's odd that he bothered to name and list it.

@ JECE : yes, of course, I indeed thought that it was not build anywhere but I wanted to be sure because of the possibly contradictory information. I would rather discover my mistake here in the forum rather than while playing a game, with possibly disastrous consequences !

Any further work happening at the moment to bring 1900 and Versailles to the site?

I have done some work on the smallmap of Versailles and are waiting for Tob for the 1900-1/2 strength-rule. Anybody would take the Versailles-largemap?

Thanks for the update Oli :-)

Coding for 1900 is mostly done on my site. I'm currently mainly testing the changes and might be able to offer something in the next few days.

Thank you very much, tobi1 !

You rock tobi!

Great news!

Two more details:
• On the big map, the left bank of the river/canal in the Crimea supply center seems to colored according to who controls Venice.
• It is 'Franche Comté' ('Free County' in English), not "France Comte". The accent is on the original list drawn up by the variant creator, but the 'h' is omitted there too. I think that we should give the creator the benefit of the doubt that the 'France' typo was an autocorrect mistake and fix the error here along with the accent.

The correct spelling is :

Franche-Comté

I am positive about it because French is my native language.
Also, you can check it on :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9

I don't think the hyphen was there c. 1600:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Bourgogne

The hyphen appeared officially in 1478 :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9#Toponymie
Look in the paragraphe "Toponymie", at the second line.

Retillion: Perhaps my French is rusty (which it surely is), but I don't think that sentence helps us very much once you read on. As I read the paragraph, they propose several dates for the introduction of 'Free', with the hyphen only being included incidentally.

@ JECE :

The text says that the name "Franche-Comté" appeared officially in 1478. Those words with that exact spelling can be seen on official texts from that time.
If you could read French, you would have understood that the oldest official document that shows the hyphen is from 1366 with the spelling "France-Comté".
That means that the hyphen is even older that the letter "h" wich appeared later for phonetic reasons.
→ That shows that, in 1600, the name "Franche-Comté" had been in use for at least 122 years.

I have given you a source of information.
What is yours for "not thinking the hyphen was there c. 1600" ?

Alain Manesson-Mallet's map: Cercle d'Alsace ou du Haut-Rhin, in Description de L'Univers published in 1683 shows it as Franche Comté; the Historic Map of the Duchy of Burgundy at 1588 by Abrham Ortelius shows it as La France Comte - in both cases without a hyphen. It did not become part of the French realm until about 1688. As with all spellings in Europe until the mass production of maps and books, geographical spellings were pretty much at the whim of the author. The Academie Francaise itself was pretty much the imposition of royalty as an attempt to unify the language which was as disparate as the UK in dialects and languages. I have given my sources too!