Strange regions boundaries

[Darth Stalin]

Hey!
In EB 1.0 I've noticed quite strange region boundaries on Peloponessos, at the southern tip of the peninsula. There's something like a "meeting" of 4 regions: Lakonike, Aitolia, Krete and Kilikia (in Asia Mnor :!: )
Why is that so arranged?

As I looked into MAP_REGIONS.TGA and MAP_REGIONS_safe.TGA files, the "safe" file has proper region boundary, with no "intrusions" of foreign regions on Peloponessos. Now I'm thinking on changing the file (and of course deleting map.rwm file to allow the campaign to be continued, as I understand...), yet I wonder why that was so arranged?
Just a mistake? (though I doubt whether EB team makes such "mistakes")
Or maybe this is to force other powers, who own the provinces so "hooked" in Peloponessos, to intervene there in case that someone marches into "their" territory?
Though I wonder why there is Krete so marked - it starts the game as independent and I never saw it being conquered by anyone... so maybe chosing some Egyptian province would make more sense?

I'm asking 'cause I don't like such "strange hooks" and I'd like to delete these 3 "unnecessary" pixels from the file, yet I wouldn't like to make some crash or so...

And - when I change the pixels in MAP_REGIONS.TGA file, I should ALWAYS delete map.rwm file and let the game create it again anew, right?

[Ludens]

It actually represents Cape Tainaron, which served a sort of mercenary hub and was inaccessible from the mainland. This way you can recruit mercenaries from three different provinces at one map point.

[Darth Stalin]

OK, thanks!
So I won't delete that - as I supposed, the EB team wouldn't do that without a purpose :D

[Lgk]

It actually represents Cape Tainaron, which served a sort of mercenary hub and was inaccessible from the mainland. This way you can recruit mercenaries from three different provinces at one map point.

Hmm... then why merely adding more mercs for Peloponnessos wasn't enough? Methinks current situation is a bit weird, i mean, someone recruiting there deprives some other guy (a hundreds miles away) of these mercs! Well, maybe we can pretend that aforementioned mercs just packed and sailed to Peloponnessos, but then - why from these certain regions and no other?

Also i wonder if such a map layout can confuse AI sometime?

P.S. Noticed a bit of Ireland belonging to Caledonia... now don't tell me it's not a (minor) bug!

[bovi]

Lgk, you sound a bit confused. Yes, mercenaries travel. Yes, there was competition for them across pretty great distances. Yes, Cape Tainaron was particularly known for having mercenaries looking for work flocking in. Mercs'R'Us.

[Lgk]

Just checked in-game again and it only looks worse now. The whole thing reeks of cheat for human player:

1) Cape Tainaron is inaccessible by land, so i doubt AI will ever (not to say effectively) recruit here.
2) Again, why Greek and Asian factions should have a penalty of being potentially stripped of their mercenaries at most inopportune moment
(eg - imagine such action being a prelude to naval invasion!) As if AI doesn't suffer against devious human player already. :)
3) Aitolia, Krete and Lakonike are in the same mercenary pool (Hellas), so it's absolutely useless to have chunks of other Greek regions there! It might still remain Lakonike w/o any difference!

Methinks it should be removed for the sake of balance and less AI confusion.

[bovi]

At what point did you get the impression that we choose gameplay over history? Anyway, I have yet to see any human player with enough money to snatch all the mercs away at any point before he can easily dominate the AI by other means. Did you check the costs of the mercenaries while you were at it? They take boatloads of gold for their services.

Your last point might be good though. We have consolidated the mercenary pools from the 0.8x single-region ones to bigger ones, and this was done after the Cape Tainaron map changes. I'll mention it in EBH and see what people think.