CK2 converter

[lafo_mamone]

Questions about people's experience with the save game converter, as it seems to hate me atm.

I played an Ironman in CK2 from start to finish and wanted to export it for continuation in EU4. It promised to be a brawl, as there were a couple of big neighbours Started as Af Munso and Sweden, created the Empire of Scandinavia and holdings of pretty much whole of Northern Europe, plus British isles, Baltic as mare nostrum and large swathes of Russia.

Unfortunately, my dynasty had a bit of a downfall from the rank of Emperor to the King of England and lost some areas due to concurrent faction rebellions (most of Ireland, southern Baltic coast, Norway and Sweden).

Now, when I start up EU4 with the mod, England is a vassal kingdom of Scandinavia (other vassal kingdoms from CK2 are still a part of the country) and my tech group is now eastern. Any explanation for this?

 

[Glanzor]

... that's just how it works.
Player controlled vasalls are always converted as vasalls in EU4 instead of being converted as part of their leige country. Otherwise it depends on the leige's crown authority.
And you are eastern tech group because your tech level in CK2 was a bit lower than the tech level of the most advanced nation at that time.

 

[lafo_mamone]

Ach, for gods' sake. There's a reason why I tried not to rebel and keep the country together... Bloody daft... And since my own demesne had some of the highest tech levels, it was still a part of the greater political unit...

Anyways, is there a way to modify the converted game to rectify this.... (enter expletives as you see fit)?

 

[Glanzor]

If wasn't an Iron man game I'd say just convert it again as your leige ...

But yeah, you can change the converted game.
It is just a lot of work.
Go into [your documents]/Paradox Interactive/eu4_export/mod/[save name]/history/provinces
Then look for all the provinces currently hold by your country and change "controller = GBR" to "controller=SCA".

 

[Sergeant Flutter]

The converter's pretty broken. I just ported over one of my saves, it cut my realm in half, and the rest of the world was controlled by the countries that control it in EU4?

 

[Bernard95]

The converter has always worked fine for me barring periods where it wasn't updated. What you have to be mindful of is how empowered your council is with Conclave or alternatively your crown authority without. With an unempowered council or high crown authority there won't be any vassals and likewise you'll have many to deal with fully empowered and low.

 

[lafo_mamone]

If wasn't an Iron man game I'd say just convert it again as your leige ...

But yeah, you can change the converted game.
It is just a lot of work.
Go into [your documents]/Paradox Interactive/eu4_export/mod/[save name]/history/provinces
Then look for all the provinces currently hold by your country and change "controller = GBR" to "controller=SCA".

Thanks, will try to do it this way