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NMA Multiplayer

Lobby Rules

Table of contents

  1. Additional lobby rules
  2. NMA Multiplayer - General Options
    1. Host Tool
    2. Minelaying Settings
    3. Adaptable Settings
    4. Makeshift Bridges Settings
    5. Siegy Artillery Settings
    6. Snorkel lvl.2 Settings
    7. Annex Malaya Settings
    8. Annex AI Minors Settings
    9. 1941 Tanks Settings
    10. 1943 Tanks Settings
    11. 1940 Planes Settings
    12. 1944 Planes Settings
    13. Strategic Bombers Settings
    14. 1940 Navy Settings
    15. 1944 Navy Settings
    16. 1939 Inf. equipment Settings
    17. 1942 Inf. equipment Settings
    18. Air Production Focus Settings
    19. Jaegernotprogramm Settings
    20. Force Attack/Last Stand Options
    21. Vichy France Settings
    22. Franco-British Union Settings
    23. USA Refineries lock
    24. USA Lock
    25. Total Mobilization Settings
    26. Extra spy slots for Germany
  3. NMA Multiplayer - Grinding Options

Additional lobby rules

As the title says. We know that we’ve a lot of different hosts and communities who’re playing in HoI IV, so instead of hardcoding some very sensitive gameplay questions we’ve made an additional menu in lobby settings where the host can set up a lobby however he wants.

Unfortunately we can’t give an opportunity to set literally every game aspect in the lobby options. The reason why we can’t do so is the game’s internal structure. For instance, such things like history files (which contain resource allocations, starting units, etc) can’t be modified in this way and the same goes for defines.

To set lobby rules all you need to do is to click here, while hosting:

Right now host can set next things:

NMA Multiplayer - General Options

Host Tool

  • This option will grant the host tool access to any country from the list:
    • None (Default)
    • Soviet Union
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Romania
    • Hungary
    • Bulgaria
    • Spain
    • Japan
    • Manchukuo
    • Siam
    • UK
    • USA
    • France
    • Canada
    • Australia
    • South Africa
    • British Raj
    • New Zealand
    • Norway
    • Ireland
    • Brazil
    • Mexico
    • Philippines

Minelaying Settings

  • Disable minelaying (Default) 
    This option will disable minelaying technology and will change all minelaying ships with their mines-free equivalent
  • Enable minelaying 
    This option will enable minelaying technology (Vanilla)

Adaptable Settings

  • Allow Adaptable trait (Default) 
    This option will enable the adaptable trait for generals (Vanilla)
  • Ban Adaptable trait 
    This option will disable the adaptable trait for generals
  • Allow Adaptable trait only for field marshals 
    This option will allow Adaptable only for field marshals

Makeshift Bridges Settings

  • Allow Makeshift Bridges (Default) 
    This option will enable the Makeshift Bridges ability for generals with "Improvisation expert" trait (Vanilla)
  • Ban Makeshift Bridges 
    This option will disable the Makeshift Bridges ability for generals with "Improvisation expert" trait

Siegy Artillery Settings

  • Allow Siege Artillery (Default) 
    This option will enable the Siege Artillery ability for generals with "Fortress Buster" trait (Vanilla)
  • Ban Siege Artillery 
    This option will disable the Siege Artillery ability for generals with "Fortress Buster" trait

Snorkel lvl.2 Settings

  • Free Research (Default)
This option will enable snorkel lvl. 2 technology (Vanilla)
  • Banned until 1942
This option will allow to research snorkel lvl.2 since 1.1.1942
  • Ban Snorkel 2
This option will disable Snorkel lvl. 2 technology

Annex Malaya Settings

  • Ban (Default)
This option will revert Malaya annexation to the vanilla-like behavior (lend-lease required)
  • Allow
This option will allow UK to annex Malaya for 300pp (without lend-lease)

Annex AI Minors Settings

  • Ban (Default)
Keep things vanilla
  • Allow
This option will allow UK to annex Commonwealth nations
Australia - New Zealand (only if UK will allow it)
Germany - Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria 
Japan - Siam, Manchukuo and Mengkukuo

1941 Tanks Settings

  • Free research (Default)
Vanilla
  • 2 years ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1941 tanks since 1 january 1939
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1941 tanks since 1 january 1940

1943 Tanks Settings

  • 2 years ahead of time restriction (Default)
This option will allow to research 1941 tanks since 1 january 1941
  • Free research
Vanilla
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1941 tanks since 1 january 1942

1940 Planes Settings

  • Free research (Default)
Vanilla
  • 2 years ahead of time restriction
this option will allow to research 1940 planes since 1 january 1938
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction.
this option will allow to research 1940 planes since 1 january 1939

1944 Planes Settings

  • 2 years ahead of time restriction (Default)
this option will allow to research 1940 planes since 1 january 1942
  • Free research
Vanilla
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction.
this option will allow to research 1940 planes since 1 january 1943

Strategic Bombers Settings

  • Allow (Default)
Vanilla
  • Ban
This option will remove strategic bombers from the game

1940 Navy Settings

  • 2 years ahead of time restriction (Default)
This option will allow to research 1940 navy since 1 january 1938
  • Free research
Vanilla
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1940 navy since 1 january 1939

1944 Navy Settings

  • 2 years ahead of time restriction (Default)
This option will allow to research 1940 navy since 1 january 1942
  • Free research
Vanilla
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1940 navy since 1 january 1943

1939 Inf. equipment Settings

  • Free research (Default)
Vanilla
  • 2 years ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1939 infantry equipment since 1 january 1937
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1939 infantry equipment since 1 january 1938

1942 Inf. equipment Settings

  • Free research (Default)
Vanilla
  • 2 years ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1939 infantry equipment since 1 january 1940
  • 1 year ahead of time restriction
This option will allow to research 1939 infantry equipment since 1 january 1941

Air Production Focus Settings

  • Ban (Default)
Does pretty obvious thing
  • Allow
Vanilla

Jaegernotprogramm Settings

  • Ban (Default)
This option will remove German Jaegernotprogramm from the game
  • Allow
This option will allow Germany to use Jaegernotprogramm decision

Force Attack/Last Stand Options

  • Reworked (Default)
This options will 
    reduce Force Attack entrenchment bonus to -25% 
    increase Last Stand strength damage up to 120%
  • Ban
This options will ban these two abilites
  • Vanilla
This options will not change these two abilites

Vichy France Settings

  • Ban (Default)
This option will do what it says - removes Vichy France from the game
  • Allow Vichy France
This option will allow Vichy France to be formed. For some reason if you want so.

Franco-British Union Settings

  • Allow (Default)
This option will allow France player to from Franco-British Union after France's capitulation
  • Ban Union
This option will not allow France player to form Franco-British Union after France's capitulation

USA Refineries lock

  • Disabled (Default)
Vanilla
  • Ban until 01.01.1943
This option will increase the refineries' construction time by 200% up to 1st january of 1943
  • Ban until the war with Japan
This option will increase the refineries' construction time by 200% up to the war with Japan

USA Lock

  • Disabled (Default)
Vanilla
  • Enabled
Hhis option will prevent USA to start getting off from the great depression until July of 1937

Total Mobilization Settings

  • Allowed (Default)
Vanilla
  • Ban Total Mobilization
This option will prevent every nation except Japan from picking Total Mobilization
  • Ban untill Barbarossa
This option will prevent every nation except Japan from picking Total Mobilization untill Barbarossa starts

Extra spy slots for Germany

  • Disabled (Default)
Vanilla
  • Enabled
This option will add 2 additional operative slots for Germany since the game start

NMA Multiplayer - Grinding Options

Additionally we’ve introduced a completely new QoL feature: host could limit (in months) for how long players can grind each country

You can turn off this feature just by having “no limits” for each corresponding country, but if you want to turn it on you should choose for how long players would be able to grind each country