Help with save-game editing

[unmerged(12680)]

Basically I made the wrong province a free county, and my autosave was off, so I need to erase any trace of the county and give the province back to me.

Now, I opened the save but it appears to be much more diffcult to edit then HoI/EU... So, how do I change the ownership of a province from one realm to another, and how do I erase the remains of the indepedant county to avoid crashes?

Please help.

 

[richvh]

Basically I made the wrong province a free county, and my autosave was off, so I need to erase any trace of the county and give the province back to me.

Now, I opened the save but it appears to be much more diffcult to edit then HoI/EU... So, how do I change the ownership of a province from one realm to another, and how do I erase the remains of the indepedant county to avoid crashes?

Please help.

First, find out the tag for your errant county. It's going to be Cxxx, where xxx is the province number. You probably already have this, but if you don't, you can use the List of All Tags sticky in this forum, or one of Daywalker's maps (also in this forum), from provinces.csv, or in game using a console cheat to display province numbers.

Next, load your save game into a text editor. Search it for the county tag. It should appear in the header, in several character entries, and in the titles section. The one in the header you can probably leave alone, but you can delete it to be one the safe side. That's only used in the scenario selection screen. You need to change the TAG entry for all characters who have TAG = your county, probably to your own court. In the title section, the current title holder has to be changed to your character. Since this county used to be yours, you can probably delete the last holder line and the enddate entry for the previous holder line.

I think that's all that is needed to be done; hopefully if I have left something out, someone else will chime in to correct me.

 

[unmerged(2037)]

The richvh advice may work well, but since the newly independent county make its own country, it is advisable to delete its record, something like that

country = { 
    tag = C292 
    lastpeace = { year = 1066 month = december day = 25 } 
    lastwar = { year = 0 month = january day = 0 } 
    badboy = 0.000 
    form_of_goverment = feudal 
    capital = 292 
    tier = county 
    ruler = { character = { type = 10 id = 100516 } startdate = { year = 1066 month = december day = 25 } } 
    laws = { semisalic_primogeniture_law = yes traditional_custom_law = yes ecclesical_balance = yes } 
    warfare_dev_focus = 0 
    production_dev_focus = 12 
    culture_dev_focus = 22 
    scutage = 0.500 
    crown_duty = 0.500 
    census_tax = 0.500 
    tolls = 0.500 
    upkeep = 1.000 
    church = 0.500 
    controlledprovinces = { 292 } 
    }

Also add the province number that you delete with it into your country controlled provinces list.

 

[unmerged(12680)]

It worked! Thanks a bunch!