Cuba on 25p map?

Like, is this a bug or something?

I am playing it too. It does not produce oil or metal. That means basically no navy, airforce, or tanks.

There is 26 choices when you can select the province. This is probably a mistake from the developers!

Cuba really shouldn't be playable in my opinion.

Its a waste, why not have south Africa or the Netherlands playable?

South Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela are all technically "playable countries" as they produce food, goods, metal, fossil fuels, and rare materials. but instead they chose Cuba. It is probably either a glitch or maybe an experiment to see what happens when someone plays a non playable country. In my opinion they should make at the bare minimum South Africa a playable country so then you can play at least 1 African country. SA would also be strategic and the most isolated country outside of maybe Australia. Also, Saudi Arabia should be playable and it would be pretty good with all of that oil and it is a decent size. you would also have many different options of where to invade, Europe, Africa, or Asia.

Pretty quick you will have to change the name to 37 player map.

they could do that, but I would rather they just add South Africa, an additional South American country (Colombia would be the best choice) and add either Saudi Arabia or Egypt.

It is indeed a not intended bug and will be fixed, thanks for the report.

Thanks, but I would suggest adding another country in its place.

It was nice to see some players taking on the role of Cuba actually. Perhaps some Cubans who wanted to do it just for kicks (it is always nice to play your own country).

But I agree that there are better choices for playables, which would be better than the current choice of Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia and Manchukuo.

Good options (and historically more relevant ones) would be

1. South Africa

2. Holland

3. Portugal

All countries with higher internet penetration than Tibet or Manchuria, so with more players who are likely to join a game just for the fun of playing their own homeland. Currently, it is always a pain waiting for someone to sign up to be Tibet or Xinjiang.

Would be great for hardcore players.

Countries like Belgium, Holland, and Portugal would be interesting because they have very few core provinces but significant and far away colonial holdings. These countries would lose their core provinces early if not in a good coalition but colonial holdings would be safer. Also, South Africa and Saudi Arabia are pretty significant countries. I played Cuba not because I am from there (born and live in the USA) but I though Cuba would be interesting to play because it is "not playable"

oh so cuba is a glitch.... interesting I chose to play it as it was a why not... besides you can always just invade Venezuela to get oil, iron

Besides is there any point in getting rid of it as it doesn't take away anything from the map, if someone wants to play as cuba my opinion is feel free.

would it work if you leave the map count at 25 and just expand the possible country list?

really good idea, then pople have a wider variety of choices and dynamics could vary game by game, making it more interesting.

C379 wrote:

oh so cuba is a glitch.... interesting I chose to play it as it was a why not... besides you can always just invade Venezuela to get oil, iron

Besides is there any point in getting rid of it as it doesn't take away anything from the map, if someone wants to play as cuba my opinion is feel free.

would it work if you leave the map count at 25 and just expand the possible country list?

this idea was more for this map in paticular... but good point on having it as an option and the whole country selection must be on.... forgot about that one

C379 wrote:

this idea was more for this map in paticular... but good point on having it as an option and the whole country selection must be on.... forgot about that one

Currently, when you select, you have choice of 26 countries. When you play random, it always selects the same countries(always exclude Cuba) for the 25 players. That's what I see right now.

this really is an interesting glitch, isn't it.....?

freezy wrote:

It is indeed a not intended bug and will be fixed, thanks for the report