I was watching the foreign intervention index carefully this turn in my latest PBEM game. I had just captured Richmond, and was able to get ahead in VP and NM for the first time against my opponent. I thought I recalled a mechanism where each turn, there was one FI point awarded to the side with the most VP, and one to the most NM. (Is this correct)?
So I was expecting to see the index move from 44 to 42. Then the French Intervention in Mexico event occurred, and the tooltip told me that would be -10 intervention. So I expected to see a total of 32. No other events or political options were executed that turn.
When I checked under objectives, FI had moved up to 54. My calculations are way off!
Am I misinterpreting the minus sign? Does -10 mean in CSA's benefit?
Am I wrong about the down-tick in FI for being ahead on VP and NM?
Thanks Much, -D