How do I remove countries and have their original lands be colonisable lands?

[MachopPower69]

I have been interested in this mod where all countries are one province nations and expand by colonising adjacent provinces. I have been trying to replicate it as the original mod creator gave up on the game, but I have failed to do so as the game crashes every time I try to attempt it.

How can I do something similar to this? It was my favourite mod but now that it is not being progressed, I want to try and make a mod similar to it. Especially since population mechanics have overhauled in the Menander update (nobles). Can someone help me with it? I tried deleting countries and their files leaving only a few nations and I'm sure everyone would like a revival for a popular mod.

 

[Pureon]

You might be interested in the new Civilization mod - https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/mod-imperator-civilization.1411370/

 

[Agamidae]

So... doing this manually is a TON of work. But! I did some mass repalcement with regular expressions, so you can just download 00_default.txt and put it in setup/main/
This is how it looks, which I find amusing:

Territories are assigned with own_control_core. I removed what was there and copied the capital ID.
If you want, you can remove some countries. Just delete their entry from that file.

If you want to remove buildings, search for #buildings, there's quite a few.
You could also remove cities, by doing a search and replace in the 'setup/provinces' folder Replace "city" with "settlement". But then there'll be a lot of overpopulated places, and editing pop numbers is even more work. (could be done with a start up event, though)

also, join the modding discord, there's always plenty of people to ask for help https://discord.gg/veS95j

 

[YTnuBF]

I was attempting answering this as well and approached it trying to entirely remove certain countries.

If you remove a country you'll need to remove all references to it in at least these places :

\\ImperatorRome\game\setup\countries\countries.txt
\\ImperatorRome\game\setup\main\00_default.txt
\\ImperatorRome\game\setup\characters\

But you'll run into problems fast if the country has any defined characters, like CYR (Cyrenaica).
You can delete its character setup file \\ImperatorRome\game\setup\characters\00_CYR.txt but since the game's character index cannot have gaps in it
this will cause errors.

Another problem can arise in \\ImperatorRome\game\setup\main\00_default.txt regarding Trade Routes, Families and Treasures which may reference a now deleted Country that owns a Family or a province with that particular Trade Route or Treasure.

I'm not sure if you'll need to delete also all lines regarding those and if leaving gaps will still prevent the game from starting.

EDIT:
For example if you wanted to remove Cyrenaica, you'll need to first identify its Tag.

The countries.txt file makes this quite easy. But sometimes the country is called something else in the code than shown to the player in game.
To find what a country's tag might be you can search in the localization for its name at \\ImperatorRome\game\localization\english\countries_l_english.yml or the other folders relevant to the language your game is in.

 

[MachopPower69]

So... doing this manually is a TON of work. But! I did some mass repalcement with regular expressions, so you can just download 00_default.txt and put it in setup/main/
This is how it looks, which I find amusing:

View attachment 610761

Territories are assigned with own_control_core. I removed what was there and copied the capital ID.
If you want, you can remove some countries. Just delete their entry from that file.

If you want to remove buildings, search for #buildings, there's quite a few.
You could also remove cities, by doing a search and replace in the 'setup/provinces' folder Replace "city" with "settlement". But then there'll be a lot of overpopulated places, and editing pop numbers is even more work. (could be done with a start up event, though)

also, join the modding discord, there's always plenty of people to ask for help https://discord.gg/veS95j

How do I download it? When I click on the attachment it goes into a different tab with all the code

 

[Agamidae]

How do I download it?

Right-click it, Save Link As...

 

[MachopPower69]

Right-click it, Save Link As...

Cheers bro. So the only thing I should change is replacing the file?

 

[MachopPower69]

Also, sorry about double posting but how can I randomise goods, or is that impossible? And how can I make AI unlikely to colonise, like have a lower chance to colonise if they have the chance?