How to create new countries after game start

[Peder P]

Hi,

Can anyone give some advice as how to create a new country after having started the game?

I'm playing the GC as England, and the year is 1600. I have conquered four provinces in northern france (Normandy, Picardy, Caux, Maine). I want to create a Normandy country with these three provinces - just for the fun of it. I don't want an England with a massive presence in northern france in the 17th century.

Switzerland has been annexed by Austria, so I tried to create a country in the savegame.eug file with HEL tag, and changing the relevant text string in text.csv. However, I did something wrong, because I cannot load the modified save game. But what do I do about the statistical data and the diplomatic relations? Is there anything else, I must do to make it work?

Any ideas/suggestions?

[This message has been edited by Peder P (edited 01-01-2001).]

 

[unmerged(372)]

While I hypothesize that one could, in principle do what you ask by modifying the savegame and making sure all 5000 things go in correct order, I suggest modifying the 1492, 1617, or 1700 .inc files since there is nil to none chance of you making these mods without everything crashing. The savegame .eug files contain way to much information (over 10x that of an inc file) and it is too interconnected to change for a human being.