Yeah, making the game easier is a drawback that occasionally bothers me with merging. But it's a drawback I'm willing to take just for the convenience with the USA.Agree merging states is fun(espiecially in PDM), to avoid micro with non LF policy But there are two issues with "merging":
a) game is easier, becouse your NF have greater impact on population; due to higher population it is easier to have high industry score there, and you have more type of rgo, so you always have bonus to output.
And you have less colonial points too;/
P.S. Can you give your modded file:>? I'm to lazy to change every state in USA.
I can exchange for Japan, Korea or Sweden/Australia merged files
How does the merged Virginia work in the ACW? Isn't West Virginia hardcoded to side with the union?In my experience, there is no "convenient" way to play America with the standard amount of regions that I didn't find annoying. If you have State Capitalism, it's incredibly tedious managing all the states. If you have laissez-faire, you just constantly watch the smaller states have factories go under and people being unemployed because they aren't being supported or don't have the state resources. It was just annoying to me.
Which is why I got sick of that and whenever I decided to play as America, I'd just mod my game to have a much more acceptable 30 region country.
I'm sure plenty of people would disagree with it for either modding, or being the fact I merged certain states together that some people wouldn't agreee with. All I know is that it was LEAGUES more fun to play like this.
I was wondering that too, so I checked the event file: It's the individual states within the regions that do not secede, not the regions; so it should work fine.
Yep, exactly this. Because of the way the event is coded, West Virginia and Maryland stay part of the Union while the rest splits off to the Confederacy. So there's no real issue.
