Clan Wars Map Changes in 9.1

Hypnotik: New Provinces   With this update, there are 50 new provinces being added to the Clan Wars map. Introduced are Mexico, which consists of 38 provinces, and 12 other countries, which consist of 1 province each. The values of the provinces range from 96-4080 Gold per day, for a total of 34896 per day.   Map Distribution Luckily, the area that is covered by these new provinces is very diverse, and that has made a wide variety of maps easily justifiable. The 50 new provinces will be represented by 28 new maps. We'd especially like to thank members of the Council of Armored Forces for their input regarding the choices of maps to be used.   New Provinces Map Distribution Abbey 1 Airfield 2 Cliff 2 El Halluf 3 Ensk 2 Fisherman's Bay 2 Fjords 3 Highway 1 Himmelsdorf 1 Karelia 3 Komarin 1 Lakeville 2 Live Oaks 2 Malinovka 1 Mines 2 Mountain Pass 1 Northwest 2 Pearl River 2 Prokhorovka 1 Redshire 1 Ruinberg 1 Sand River 3 Serene Coast 2 Siegfried Line 2 South Coast 4 Steppes 1 Swamp 1 Westfield 1   Overall Map Distribution Abbey 7 Airfield 4 Arctic Region 9 Cliff 14 Dragon Ridge 3 El Halluf 5 Ensk 11 Erlenberg 10 Fisherman's Bay 10 Fjords 15 Highway 9 Himmelsdorf 9 Karelia 12 Komarin 9 Lakeville 11 Live Oaks 12 Malinovka 10 Mines 13 Mountain Pass 13 Murovanka 11 Northwest 7 Pearl River 8 Prokhorovka 10 Province 2 Redshire 11 Ruinberg 8 Ruinberg on Fire 1 Sand River 6 Serene Coast 8 Severogorsk 10 Siegfried Line 9 South Coast 13 Steppes 10 Swamp 9 Tundra 11 Westfield 10 Winter Himmelsdorf 1   What Happens to the Landing Zones?   There are two provinces along the US-Mexico border which are being removed; Pecos, Texas and Coronado National Forest. While we do have the ability to utilize inland landing provinces (such as Cheyenne, Wyoming), it was decided that these provinces being landing provinces would be redundant after the new ones become available, as the time it takes to reach them would be LZ+2 days and LZ+1 day, respectively.   There was an area that did suffer along the Gulf Coast after this change, and the worst province became Little Rock, Arkansas at LZ+5 days. In order to counteract this, we have changed New Orleans, Louisiana into a landing province and redistributed part of it's income to San Antonio, Texas in order to make it more in-line with other landing provinces. This change resulted in the most accessible map we've had yet on the NA server (including our old Europe/North Africa setup).   At the bottom of this post, you can see how long it takes to reach each province in the mainland USA and the new provinces.   Design of the Map   We also decided that the layout of the map needed a few improvements from what has been visible in the past. There were 5 connection lines added to improve the accessibility of the new provinces from their original design. These can be seen in the image below represented by pink lines.   Travel Times Map: Key: White Dot = Landing Province Green Dot = Travel Time is LZ+1 day Yellow Dot = Travel Time is LZ+2 days Orange Dot = LZ+3 days Pink Dot = LZ+4 days Pink Line = New province connection line (in addition to current connections)