I have created a new map to be the 1940 Election of my alternate history in which the CSA won the Civil War (inspired by but not based on Harry Turtledove's books). In 1940, some states have different shapes. The US has annexed part of northern Louisiana from the CSA and California has split in two. Arizona/New Mexico are divided horizontally instead of vertically; Arizona is in the CSA and New Mexico is in the USA. I see that in order to change the shapes of these states, I would have to go into each state's .xml file and alter the long series of points. Is there a guide out there to show me where on the national map these points are? Or must I rely only on trial and error, changing some points a bit, then loading the game to see what it did, gradually learning the process?
Other than that, the only problem I have with this new scenario is the TV interviews. I changed the O'Malley Scenario into an NBC news show, and I plan to rewrite the questions to all the interviews when I finish the map work. I replaced O'Malley with a custom "candidate," historical NBC reporter Lowell Thomas. Now, whenever my candidate gets an invitation to appear on NBC, I travel to that state and accept the invitation. But nothing happens. The window pops up with NBC's logo and description, and I click OK. Then I'm back at the campaign screen, free to move my candidate around and campaign. I can't detect any effects of an interview. In the .xml files of each TV show, and in the part of the overall scenario .xml file for the interviews, what must I change to have the interview show up? The other interviews remaining, 60 Seconds and Barry King (I deleted Coldcut and did not change the other two whatsoever) work normally.
Other than those two issues, my mod is coming along so well I might consider trying to upload it somewhere. The political parties have been reversed - the Republicans are liberal and the "Northern Democrats" (so named in the 1880s to differentiate themselves form the CSA's southern Democrats) are conservative. Therefore New York typically shows up red and Texas (before I deleted it) showed up blue. I even darkened the shades of red and blue a bit. In my alternate history, the 1940 election is between Montana Senator Burton Wheeler, a Republican, and Vice President Alf Landon, a Northern Democrat. President Warren Harding is in his late seventies and is completing his second term, having only been an Ohio Congressman in 1923 and therefore not dying of a food-poisoning-induced or stress-induced heart attack. The NDP (Northern Democratic party, initials a reference to our GOP) had won the Third Civil War in 1936, but Harding's second term was filled with corruption scandals, and he was portrayed as a corrupt old geezer with no backbone. I've modified the issues to take away all modern things like the Iraq War and replaced them with Reunification with the CSA, helping the CSA rebuild and eventually becoming allies, giving foreign aid to war-torn Europe, etc. As my alternate history progresses, Wheeler and his running mate, Governor Roosevelt of New York, win in a landslide against Landon and his running mate Wendell Willkie. I have already created custom candidates Harding and Wheeler, and I have downloaded FDR. I plan to create Landon, Willkie, and many other politicians from that era soon. I might upload them, if I'm satisfied with them. If you want to know more about my alternate history, tell me and I'll post in another forum.
