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Hello,
As I'm Polish, I decided to play as Krakow after I learned a game. However, When I look at decisions, I'm only able to form Poland-Lithuania, but not Poland itself. Is it a glitch? Can I fix it somehow?
I'll add I am playing with A House Divided.
Thank you for any help :)
 

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step 1: get HoD
step 2: if you want, getPop Demand
step 3: Play game again, form poland lithuania cause thats a better rebirth
 

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Maybe they like the flag better. Maybe they're not a fan of the Commonwealth. Maybe they want to see their country rise as an independent nation. Is it particularly important?

But as for the topic of the thread itself, it seems like for some reason Krakow doesn't have an option to form Poland in the base game; even with HoD. It's rather strange, in my opinion. Maybe if you ask in the Mod forum, they'll be able to point you towards either a mod that lets you create Poland or how to edit the files yourself.

Though there is just the possible reason that Paradox made it so that the decision doesn't even show up until certain conditions were met. But that doesn't seem likely to me.
 

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Go to the folder where you have installed Victoria II. For me, that's C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Victoria 2\. There you will find a folder called decisions. Open it and create a new file there called PolishNation.txt or something. Inside it, you put this:
Code:
political_decisions = {
	form_polish_nation = {
		potential = {
			#is_greater_power = yes
			primary_culture = polish
			NOT = {
				exists = POL
				exists = PLC
			}
		}	
		allow = {
			war = no
			POL = {
				all_core = {
					OR = {
						owned_by = THIS
						owner = {
							in_sphere = THIS
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
		
		effect = {
			prestige = 10
			change_tag = POL
		}
		
		ai_will_do = {
			factor = 1
		}
	}
	
}
If you want the country forming Poland to have to be a GP, you can remove the # in front of that line (# is a comment mark. Everything after this on the same line is not read by the game).
If you want to, you can add localisation too. Go to the folder called localisation (inside the same folder as the decisions folder) and copy a vanilla file. Name the new file PolishNation or something. Open it with Notepad++ and delete all the contents (yes, all of it...). Put this in the file instead:
Code:
form_polish_nation_title;English;French;German;;Spanish;;;;;;;;;x;;;;
form_polish_nation_desc;English;French;German;;Spanish;;;;;;;;;x;;;;
Remember to keep an empty line at the bottom of the file to keep the game from going crazy with localisation.
 

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Wow, great thanks to you 3 guys! :)

Maybe they like the flag better. Maybe they're not a fan of the Commonwealth. Maybe they want to see their country rise as an independent nation. Is it particularly important?
Yes, I think Poles and Lithanians didn't like each other at all, and the Commonwealth was a bad idea.

Go to the folder where you have installed Victoria II. For me, that's C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Victoria 2\. There you will find a folder called decisions. Open it and create a new file there called PolishNation.txt or something. Inside it, you put this:
Code:
political_decisions = {
	form_polish_nation = {
		potential = {
			#is_greater_power = yes
			primary_culture = polish
			NOT = {
				exists = POL
				exists = PLC
			}
		}	
		allow = {
			war = no
			POL = {
				all_core = {
					OR = {
						owned_by = THIS
						owner = {
							in_sphere = THIS
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
		
		effect = {
			prestige = 10
			change_tag = POL
		}
		
		ai_will_do = {
			factor = 1
		}
	}
	
}
If you want the country forming Poland to have to be a GP, you can remove the # in front of that line (# is a comment mark. Everything after this on the same line is not read by the game).
If you want to, you can add localisation too. Go to the folder called localisation (inside the same folder as the decisions folder) and copy a vanilla file. Name the new file PolishNation or something. Open it with Notepad++ and delete all the contents (yes, all of it...). Put this in the file instead:
Code:
form_polish_nation_title;English;French;German;;Spanish;;;;;;;;;x;;;;
form_polish_nation_desc;English;French;German;;Spanish;;;;;;;;;x;;;;
Remember to keep an empty line at the bottom of the file to keep the game from going crazy with localisation.
Great thanks, I've been modding ck2 and eu3 so I hope I will do this aswell :) EDIT: Doesn't this file need to require being Krakow? I also think that cores should also be accepted if a country controlling those cores is a puppet of mine. Don't know how to add it though :p

You can as well get the MOD which makes you start in 1821 and play as Poland directly and try to survive against russia !
Thanks, but I would most likely be a puppet of France... It could be interesting too, actually :)
 
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An other suggestion for you:
I played Krakow. Once I had taken Schlesien from Prussia and Western Galicia from Austria, I released Poland (well that possibility is actually quite stupid) and selected play as Poland. Poland reveives all Polish cores except Krakow. Immediately after that I declared war to Krakow (become independant + acquire core). It does not work if you have only one province.
Prior to that, I had disbanded all my Krakow province units and the units from Schlesien/Austrian West Galicia were transferred to Poland. I had also dissolved my alliances. I let Krakow (which had mobilized) begin to occupy one of my neighbouring province, and then I occupied Krakow so I didn't lose any pop.
Disadvantages : you lose your prestige amount : prestige gained with annexation of Krakow does not compensate the one you had from your earlier wars, you lose your money, you lose your allies. You also can't have a colonial empire before that because it would be impossible/difficult for Poland to occuppy Krakowian colonies in order to become independant and annex Krakow in the same war. In my game I had to release Crete...
What remains the same : technology (and prestige gained from technology), democracy (but the selected reforms were different I didn't understand why).
Advantages : You lose your ennemies, you lose your money (if you take loans and spend it before releasing Poland...), no polish nationalists movements (which was actually stupid), liberate core casus bellis against Russia, Prussia and Austria. Also the crisis system will help you get states from these countries (and you can increase tensions in these regions). Being knocked out of GP status (in my game the fall of Ottoman Empire and Spain had made a huge Krakok #8) may be useful (you can be sphered by one of your neighbour).