How do edit sphere of influences?

[Suzaku]

I was wondering how do I edit save file to change what country is in what sphere of influence?

 

[Flobalob]

1) In the save file you'll want to find the Sphere owner (if it has one; if it doesn't then read on as the method applies later, but don't actually do anything) by searching for their TAG= with CTRL+F. You'll have to flick through the various results until you get show one instance which is at the beginning of a line, representing the start of this nation's section of the save file. Any others are part of another nation's save file. Once here, do CTRL+F again and this time searching (with direction=down) for the tag of the sphered country you want to change. It should look a little like this:

Spoiler: Code example

    }
    EGY=
    {
        value=100
        last_send_diplomat="1918.4.9"
        level=5
        level_changed_date="1903.1.21"
        influence_value=100.000

Now, the important line here is level=x. This is the line that determines their level of relationship with the country in question. 5=In sphere, so in this example Egypt is in the nation's sphere. Change this number to any value between 4 and 0 and this will remove them from their sphere and give them whatever relationship assigns to the new number (e.g. 4=friendly, 3=cordial, etc..)

2) Now find the new sphere owner (skip if you want them to be unsphered) the same way as before with the tag of this country. Again, search for the desired sphereling in question the same way. Now you just have to do the reverse and change the number to level=5, which will put them in the nation's sphere.

3) Save, close and load the game to test if it has worked.