What determines what a 'major power' is?

[BrigadierBill]

Originally, I thought that the major powers were just the big 7 (US, UK, USSR, Germany, Italy, Japan, France), later thought China, India, and Poland got added to this list.

Now Brazil, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Estonia are all also major powers in my current game...

Is it just based on victory points, are there more major powers at the start than I realized, or is something else going on? A couple possible exceptions are that an allied invasion of Germany means that Denmark controls Berlin, Brazil was a major before but also took Sicily and southern Italy, and Estonia is the last surviving member of Miedzymorze.

[ProCynic]

I believe it's any nation with over either 50 or 30 (probably the former) factories

[BrigadierBill]

alright, thanks

[ProCynic]

I'm not 100% sure mind, so take that with a pinch of salt

[[NL]Ibahalii]

any country over 50 factories at 1936 is a major.
after that, it is countries that are +50 factories. but must be 3greater then the next candidate to become a major.

Acording to the Define file there need to be at all times 7 majors.(50factories +)
After that, the +3 rule kicks in.

so say the 7th major has 61 factories.
then country nr 8 needs 64 factories to take its place.

Then there is a execption to that rule, where countries can become a 8th, 9th,10th(etc) major power.
This is when country has more then 0.7 the avg. factories of the top 7 countries.
not sure how they count it, but its either have 0.7 factories more then the avg. top 7, or 70% more then the avg. top 7.
could not find any more hints/clues and the 'tooltip' behind it is equally confusing as the number.

[Horizons]

im a major power and im playing ireland

[Zastaver]

Originally posted by pug4life2100:

im a major power and im playing ireland

any player nations is also a major power

[Horizons]

Originally posted by pug4life2100:

im a major power and im playing ireland

im saying that because i beat england