annexing majors

[unmerged(28295)]

I been told that with a minor modification of the game it can be possibil to annex also major countries.

My problem currently is that I have been playing Russia in the grand campaign and have taken alle of Polen-Lituania, except the capital. No matter how mush I beat them they countinue to restart the war, and when first I am in a war with Polen all the other powers comes jumping in to get a piece of my empire.

 

[Nikolai II]

To make a major annexable in an ongoing game you do like this:

0. First backup your savegame, or make an extra save just for the purpose of editing in.

1. Open the savegame with a text editor (notepad is pretty good) (That is the <name>.eug file, the <name>.eug.cfg is just settings)

2. Early in the file you have a few posts like this

    HAB = { 
        desc = "" 
        picture = "scenarios\data\HAB1617.bmp" 
        countrytactics = "" 
        missioncountry = "HAB_TYW_MISSDESC" 
        missiontactics = "HAB_TYW_MISSTACT" 
        countrydifficulty = 0 
        countryeconomy = 0 
        countrymilitary = 0 
        countrydiplomacy = 0 
        missiontype = 0 
        numcities = 13 
        numcolonies = 0 
        numtradingposts = 0 
        numgold = 500 
        }

2½ Remove the one you want to get rid of. (POL for Poland)

3. Search the document for <SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE>tag = POL (Or just tag = POL but then you'll find it in more places than strictly necessary)

You'll find yourself about here:

country = { 
    tag = POL 
    ai = "default.ai" 
    badboy = 0 
    colonialattempts = 0 
    colonialnation = no 
    major = yes 
    bank = no 
    stock = no

3½ Change major = yes to major = no

4. Save.

5. Confirm that file-extension hasn't changed into .txt, if so, change it back to .eug

6. Load the save and enjoy

7. If anything goes wrong, just return and ask specific questions



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PS - You have made too many wars and/or taken too many provinces or made too many annexations, so you are experiencing EU1 style BadBoy wars, either prepare to get into a lot of dogpile-wars as soon as you get into any war, or look for your own nation (search for tag = RUS) and change your badboy = ## to something lower (cheating).

 

[unmerged(28295)]

Great thanks

Dont think I will change the badboy thing, it seems resonabel enough that everybody tries to stop a country that are expanding to mush and are treatening the powerstructure.

 

[unmerged(19057)]

does the BB just go down regularly, like if u take a timeout from wars and annexations?

 

[Nikolai II]

I goes down all the time (1 point / 4 years) , but if you involve yourself in wars in the meantime it is easy to gain new BB faster..

Loosing provinces in war reduces BB too.