Editing Save Files

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Is their a way to make a puppet via editing the Save File, if so how? If not is their a cheat or Event someone could write for me?

 

[Raze]

Is their a way to make a puppet via editing the Save File, if so how? If not is their a cheat or Event someone could write for me?

It's pretty easy for me to do. But if you don't know how to do it you should probably just do this.

Reload the game as the other country. Declare war on your country. Save. Reload as your country. Activate "acceptall" cheat. Offer peace and make them your puppet that way. Unless you are really hell bent on doing it through the save file that is.

 

[PackMan]

Is their a way to make a puppet via editing the Save File, if so how? If not is their a cheat or Event someone could write for me?

You can make a country a puppet by editing a savegame file.
Open up the savegame file in your favorite text editor (I use Programmers Notepad myself, free and extremely fast. http://www.pnotepad.org/) and search for the country you would like to puppet.

Now scroll down until you find where the list of leaders begin (breakthrough = is the last property just before leaders). This is where you place the puppet value.

So, it should look something like this:

    breakthrough = 0.0100 
    puppet = "GER" 
    leader = {

In this example it's SLO being the puppet of Germany.
ALWAYS make a backup before you edit the file, just in case something goes wrong.

 

[son of liberty]

And if you want military control, just below puppet add control = "your country"