Made some changes so it will launch... Will post here in case anyone else runs across similar problems..

I don't know about the Mac stuff. I ignored that folder.

* Had to remove the + from the name, it was invalid
* Txt file was too big. This needs to be a brief pointer to online rules, not full on rules within.
* Var file should only have the names, you had these listed w folders
* Rgn file had an invalid header line, this should point to the installed loc of the rgn file.
* Gam file was good, tho cleaned up the + in the name
* Your borders map was saved in 16M colors. Should be reduced to 8bit 256-color. I don't know how you got that to go thru the region tool.


Some suggestions...
* Dont use both Red and Crimson. For 10% of males they are too similar. You could use Tan instead of Crimson.

* I would suggest Charcoal instead of Black. Black on solid fill is too black.

* Reduce your bitmap by about 1/3. Right now you're 1532x1242, this should be no more than 850 high so it will fit on a standard screen (4:3 1280x1024, or 13:9 1400x900). In either case if you stay under 850 high, then you will not have to scroll the screen to see the full map. It sounds trivial, but it will annoy GMs if they are always scrolling.

* Consider giving each nation a unique fill. Again for those w less than a full complement of color-perceiving cones in their eyes, having the varying fills makes things easier to see. Sparse, Hatch, Quilt, and Random are nice.

* Add into the text file, something along the lines of... Play online at Diplomaticcorp. www.diplomaticcorp.com. (since this will ultimately get distributed around)

Voila, it works!

-mike

The variant file. I've emailed it to you.