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Originally Posted by jasonb885
I think Sweden was the largest offender. My original solution was to ensure that no neutral nation could be the leader of a convoy. That fixed the "large neutral convoy" being reported which annoyed me to no end. It did not, sadly, resolve the issue of some nations that were legitimately in convoys being neutral for some of, or all of, the war.
Actually, there were two issues I failed to address due to eventual lack of interest and time constraints,
a) Add Panama as a nation and properly represent it in convoys
b) Add cloned nations for neutrals so convoy ships fly under those flags instead -- the flags would be identical, but the nation itself would only be used in convoys (i.e. I'd use the AmericaWar nation in convoys and leave the stock America alone for all single merchant traffic.)
[Also having a single machine and having to dual boot between Linux and Windows for testing made this somewhat impractical and annoying -- I now have a dedicated gaming system and that aleviates that issue entirely.]
It sounds like a) is already alive and well and you're currently going to deploy ships from Panama. I find that very exciting. I have some existing tables from Observer, who I see is also involved in this mod, which list the nationality percentage, where determinable, based on ship sinkings. (It's what I used for all my IC mods for nationality composition and I am quite grateful to Observer for taking the time to create those Excel sheets.)
It sounds like b) hasn't been done, yet, but could be done the same way a) was done by whoever actually did it, or I can probably download a tool to do it graphically as things have progressed quite far since I was last doing mods. If not, I can always bust out a hex editor.
So, I think what I'm going to do, then, is modify my internalized nations structure to include Panama as a nation, reapportion the convoy compositions to include Panama based on Observer's Excel sheets, then test that and verify it works correctly.
Then, I can look into b) more closely.
If your tool primarily alters WP information and you've been modifying other portions of the RND by hand, then there won't be a tool collision.
Anyway, I hate duplicate work, especially when mine isn't as good as someone else's, so I wanted to let you know what I wanted to do, in case you're doing / already did it.
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