A province ID petition (is it feasible?)

[Gnostek]

It irks me that new provinces added recently are in the 4000's and are surrounded by low ID provinces (most obvious example would be Scandinavia). Would it be possible to re-arrange province ID's, and perhaps always leaving 5 blank slots in every region?
Say for instance scandinavia has id's 1-80 even if it only uses 70, or something like that

I understand that most triggers are based on province ID's, and it would mean a lot of replacement, but surely it can be automated, right? Find and replace through all the files.

I hope this doesn't sound like an extreme OCD case :<

 

[Metroidkirby]

Or perhaps adding an option IG that show the province ID, I think it's far easier to do, and as an option can be disable when you're playing iron-man

 

[Willem IV]

Or perhaps adding an option IG that show the province ID, I think it's far easier to do, and as an option can be disable when you're playing iron-man

Open Cheat menu, type 'debug_mode' and hover over the province.

 

[Metroidkirby]

So it's already existing? Nice to know.

 

[Sfan]

But not ironman friendly. There is a list on the wiki though.

 

[Trin Tragula]

The IDs are not needed to play, aren't displayed in game and wildly divergent IDs have bordered each other since release (and did so even in EU3 which is the map ours was based on back in the day). I agree that for modders and people who want to use the console renumbering the 4000+ provinces in the game would have some use.
The major cost of it would be that every save game in existence would break completely though which makes the entire thing very unlikely from our point of view even if it didn't also mean revisiting hundreds of events and decisions