Changing Provinces in States

[unmerged(90368)]

Hi.
I would like to know how one moves a province (say Fiume) from one State to another (from Croatia to Istria).
I think I saw it being done somewhere (VIP possibly?) but could not find where.
Thanks for your assistance.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

Altering the province.csv would make it a permanent change (in the row which specifies the state - should be quite straight forward). For a temporary change you can do this in the owner's .inc file. See the UK's .inc file for an example of how states are divided up (and set to be a colony or not, etc...).

 

[Fengryffen]

If I could sneak a related question in here- is it possible to create new states or is that something hard-coded? If it is possible then which are the relevant files?

 

[Xender]

If you want to do this for every game you play, you need to modify the province.csv file in the db folder.

You can change what area (state) a province is a part of. At least I think so. Although, I don't know where the names for area_extra_##s are. Anyone else know?

 

[Xender]

As far as new states, the tags are hardcoded, but you can rename what the tag means in the world_names.csv. Although, like I said before, I don't know where the area_extra_##s can be found...

 

[unmerged(131989)]

If I could sneak a related question in here- is it possible to create new states or is that something hard-coded? If it is possible then which are the relevant files?

Yes you can, though it will only be temporary. If you look in the .inc files for some nations, they will have something like this:

state = {
state = {
name = "Whatever the display name shall be"
colony = yes/no
province = XXXX #Province IDs go here
province = XXXX
province = XXXX
}

The default for the colony value is no (i.e. it is a state, so you can build factories).

 

[Taylor]

As far as new states, the tags are hardcoded, but you can rename what the tag means in the world_names.csv. Although, like I said before, I don't know where the area_extra_##s can be found...

They're also in world_names.csv (at the end of the list).

Note that some tags are still unnamed, so I guess those could be used to add new states to the game. (area_extra_51 through 99)

 

[Xender]

It's really not in my world_names.csv.

I searched the entire Vicky folder and it can't find the line "area_extra_51" anywhere. Or any number.

 

[Xender]

Ok, I found them. All the area_extra_##s are in newtext.csv. No clue why searching failed.. :wacko:

Also included in the file are all the new texts for buttons and events associated with Revolutions, along with 20 spots for user defined religions, and the 52 extra areas previously mentioned.

 

[Taylor]

Ok, I found them. All the area_extra_##s are in newtext.csv. No clue why searching failed.. :wacko:

Also included in the file are all the new texts for buttons and events associated with Revolutions, along with 20 spots for user defined religions, and the 52 extra areas previously mentioned.

Oops o, yes, you're right, it's in newtext.csv. Windows' searching inside files is somehow not very powerful. I think it only looks in document files.

 

[Faulty]

So, say I want to change the Virgin Isles from being in the Danish West Indies to the British West Indies. Is that allowed? I changed it in Province.csv but now my game crashes when I load the GC

What other changes do I need to make?

*edit* I've combined some other regions, too. I hate how America can't industrialise her north eastern states because they are all 1 province regions!

 

[Taylor]

So, say I want to change the Virgin Isles from being in the Danish West Indies to the British West Indies. Is that allowed? I changed it in Province.csv but now my game crashes when I load the GC

What other changes do I need to make?

*edit* I've combined some other regions, too. I hate how America can't industrialise her north eastern states because they are all 1 province regions!

You should try one edit at a time, and each time test if the game still works. Then you can easily see what the problem is.

 

[jdrou]

If you edit Paradox .csv files, make sure you use a text editor unless you know exactly what you're doing and make backups. If you use a spreadsheet like Excel it tends to add extra ; and "" to the file.

 

[unmerged(48056)]

*edit* I've combined some other regions, too. I hate how America can't industrialise her north eastern states because they are all 1 province regions!

It would had been more accurate if immigrant arrival was spread out on a national as opposed to state basis.
Instead we have this delimena of immigrants settling in the most obscure regions, everyone in Chile prefers to live in the desert as opposed to Santiago. :rofl:

 

[Faulty]

If you edit Paradox .csv files, make sure you use a text editor unless you know exactly what you're doing and make backups. If you use a spreadsheet like Excel it tends to add extra ; and "" to the file.

lol, this was the problem, I was trying with OpenOffice and it was adding 6kb to the file size. Once I noticed that I switched to TextPad and no problems

Cheers for the help guys