Thanks so much Oli!

I signed up but then realised I'll be away in a couple of weeks so had to pull out. D'oh!

What were the changes in the code or map?

In the code.
Did some changes how the adjucation works. I really hate all adjucation-releated code, but I did some changes to the pirates variant, so I decided to take a look at the Imperium variant again. And I found some issues.
Should all work now. But I'm not 100% sure... :-)

Thanks so much Oli! I will be in the re-inaugural test game for sure.

Do you need a player for the inaugural game?

If the issues were river related, I suspect we will know soon. It's already getting interesting.

It's still got problems. A supported attack across the river should only have attacked with strength of 1 and not dislodged the unit there.

This is on my list of variants to hit, so please let us know when all is resolved. Tnx.

Yeah. Right.
I did test all river-variants from the variant-homepage, but this one example was not there... I will fix this asap...

Fixed (hopefully)

Found another one. I'll PM Oli.

IT seems unsupported units can no longer cross the river even if the territory they are entering is unoccupied. So basically all but two SCs are inaccessible from the start of the game and once those two are owned, the game is done.

Ok. Problem found.
At first I gave every attacking unit +2 and while crossing a river only +1. This caused a problem with supported units across a river in an occupied territory. Next try was to lower the attac by 1, but an empty territory is considered tonhave a strength of 0. So a 7nit cross8ng a river has 0 strength and can’t dislodge an empty territory with a hold of 0.
Now I have 2 more options. Try to set empty territories to -1, or a holding unit to 2 (with all attacks not crossing a river set to 2 too....
Will code this at the weekend again.

Found another (easy) solution.
If because of a river-move the attack-value is "0", I set the attack to 0.5. This fails against all other units/moves, but not against an empty territory.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but problems with the adjudicator are really hard to fix and require a lot of "thinking outside the box". And usually there are no error-messages that give a clue about the problem.

@Oli

The game bugged a bit: it asks me for orders (destroy units) but I cannot input them at all since I count as "eliminated".

Cross river at .5 str turns to 1.5 when supported (by a unit on the right side of the river). So it seems it still does not cover all possibilities. What about we playtest this variant without the river rule? We could do it in diplolab...

@CCR: This should not happen at all. Do you have a game with this error?

The attack-strength include all supports. Than the adjudicator subtracts 1, and only if this is "0" (so without any support) add the 0.5. If it's not working this way I need to rethink this solution again.

Sry you're right it should work :)

The other solution would have been to set the territory to -.5 with a holding unit having a 1.5 strength That results in empty territories have strength -.5 and territories with units having strength 1. From there, standard holds and adjustment for rivers work perfectly.

Or set attacks at 1.5, holds/standard defense at 1.5 and supports at 1. It serves the same purpose.

Byt the way, all of those also work for the standard game so could be implemented in the core engine to allow for strength reduction in any variant.

I try not to mess too much with the standard code, as the variants would stop working on other installations. Also it's easy to merge new web dip-code back here if we don't change that much.
Changing all holds to 1.5 is harder than it sounds. A lot of code needs to be touched to change this by a variant. My solution is much cleaner and easier to manage.

You know the code better than me, of course. I was just providing an alternative logic that would "meet the need" so to speak.