Attention! On how to make Great Powers annexable in a savegame...

[Hartmann]

@Toby Rowe: What I would need is a working save where You *haven´t* done anything yet by Yourself, together with an exact description of how You want the situation to look after editing.

Then there´s still two other problems:

a) I´m really hardpressed with RL issues at the time being. Any editing time I have (usually late at night) is going into the next version of the IGC, which will be issued simultaneously with 1.08).
b) Patch 1.08 isn´t compatible with old savegames and as I betatest it, I´m already playing with 1.08. I would have to go back to 1.07c again to validate Your file after having edited it.

Nevertheless, You may send me Your savegame. I will tell You my emailaddress through private message. I just cannot *promise* that I will have time to have a look at it, sorry.

Hartmann

 

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I edited a saved game, but when I tried to reload it, the game locked up.

So, I made a copy of the GC senario .eug file and edited that so that all countries are annexable (except POL). Renamed the file Poland. It now comes up as an option in the 'choose scenario' menu. It works.

The best thing, is that the GC .eug file only has the major country stats in and it only takes about 30 seconds to edit. You do not have to worry about steps 4, 5, 6 or 8 of Graf Von Bismarck's method.

Anyone having trouble should try this.

 

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Hartmann,
Thanks very much for the offer,
but having seen Montgomerys' method I think I will start anew using that method- less chance of me ruining the files!
Montgomery,
Thanks for that info- very useful!
Toby

 

[Hartmann]

Toby: This thread was dedicated to the solution of an old riddle, namely how to make countries annexable once a game is already started - like Your game. It often occurs that players change their mind about this issue in midgame. Nevertheless it´s always a good idea to start a new game anyway instead of laboriously editing savegames.

Hartmann

 

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I like Montgomery's method too and I already used it but I haven't yet been able to confirm it works. Anyone had success with it?