Sorry for the confusion. As my initial post shows, I was frustrated and rather impatient.
I am not using notepad. As a matter of fact, I use VIM to view and edit the files normally. But this map file was originally generated by Dominions via the map editor and then modified by SemiRandom which is written in yabasic. Regardless, the point is that the start code worked fine previous versions of Dom3. I will have to do more testing however as it could be some weirdness introduced by Vista. I have not generated any SemiRandom maps since changing from XP.
@Edratman
Thanks for trying that out for me. I too found Ermor where it should be, but I hadn't found Ulm yet so I cannot confirm them. If you start the game as Hinnom, you should begin in province #126. If not then a preassigned AI nation start is being overridden.
It should be:
Code:
HUMAN (only #start <prov#> placed)
player 20 HINNOM 126
AI (using #specstart <nation#> <prov#>)
player 68 LANKA 13
player 2 ULM 17
player 1 ERMOR 67
player 14 FOMORIA 77
player 13 TIR NA N'OG 88
player 10 CTIS 111