Unspecific events, group mind

[garrisonchisholm]

There are a number of events which do not specify which nation the effects affect, and the new player is sometimes surprised as to which nations are and are not affected by the response they select.  In my mind I have a fair notion of what the nations are now but that is simply from playing innumerable games.

I am wondering if anyone has ever mapped the event nation effects, and published them here?

[bcoopactual]

I'm not sure what you are asking although I guess that means the answer is no, I haven't mapped event nation effects. I was always under the impression that it tended to vary every game and within every game because there tends to be more reactions by nations that I already have a fair amount of tension with than the one or two nations that I have really low tension with at the time.

I know that every nation is assigned a trouble region. For the European nations it's the Balkans, for the USA it's South America and for Japan the Asian mainland but I thought that was mostly just there to fill in the blank for the applicable events. For example, I've noticed that if an event happens in the Balkans, most if not all of the European nations will react to my response (as the USA) while Japan almost never does.

[yemo]

I do not have enough experience, but I looked at the BNat.dat file and noticed the "TroubleRegion". Asian mainland for Japan, South America for USA and Balkans for everyone else, which I consider when being asked about some event, in addition to close by colonies.

[garrisonchisholm]

Hmm. I guess that would be a pretty complicated chart then, covering which events of every game combination would move the tension needles of which opponents.

I will try to make notes on my next full play-through, and see if I can produce something useful.

[rimbecano]

For events that do not involve a specific other nation, my impression has generally been that the effect on tensions is pretty much random. If one of your ships collides with a ship from Germany, of course that's going to affect tensions with Germany, but if there's a political murder in the Balkans, how tensions are affected will depend on each nation's reaction.