Is there a way to turn provinces uncolonized on patch 1.34?

[Nuiqes]

Up to this point i just used the "observe" command, and then used own or colonize commands in order to turn specific provinces into no man's land. However, the most recent patch, and i apologise for the colloquialism, flubbed everything up, and instead of desired effect, provinces become briefly "occupied" by the observer, to just turn back to prievous state a tick later.
Is there a new command or something to turn provinces uncolonized? Or am i, yet again, cursed with digging through the save files without a shovel? Cheers

 

[grotaclas]

That "own" as the observer made a province uncolonized in previous versions sounds more like a bug than a desired effect. I guess it worked, because the observer was coded as having null as the country and null as a province owner meant uncolonized.

1.34 offers another way to make a province uncolonized which is definitely intended, because the patchnotes say

Added "decolonize = <province_id> / yes" effect.

You can use any effect with a run file.

 

[Msarc]

1.34 offers another way to make a province uncolonized which is definitely intended, because the patchnotes say
You can use any effect with a run file.

This is fantastic. Best thing is it accepts scopes like super regions, so for example you could decolonize the whole of Americas and Oceania with just a run file like this:

north_america_superregion = {
    decolonize = THIS
}
central_america_superregion = {
    decolonize = THIS
}
south_america_superregion = {
    decolonize = THIS
}
andes_superregion = {
    decolonize = THIS
}
oceania_superregion = {
    decolonize = THIS
}

Although I'm sure there's a more elegant way to code the above.

 

[grotaclas]

I just learned that there is also a new console command remove_country which can be used to remove a tag and make their provinces uncolonized.

 

[Nuiqes]

This is fantastic. Best thing is it accepts scopes like super regions, so for example you could decolonize the whole of Americas and Oceania with just a run file like this:

[Nice code]

Although I'm sure there's a more elegant way to code the above.

Is there a way to create a console command out of run file? Or create a console command for specific provinces? I know how to make a basic run file, however i wish i could insert script parameters to the console, and not have to tab out of the game every time to overwrite the run file. You know, like in bash scripts?

 

[grotaclas]

Is there a way to create a console command out of run file? Or create a console command for specific provinces? I know how to make a basic run file, however i wish i could insert script parameters to the console, and not have to tab out of the game every time to overwrite the run file. You know, like in bash scripts?

I don't think that this is possible. If you want to uncolonize a lot of provinces, you can either construct a trigger/effect which matches most or all of them (e.g. with every_province) or you could use the own console command to give all the provinces to a specific country and afterwards use the remove_country console command

 

[zaint]

Does anyone have any advice on how to write a script that decolonizes every province in the game except capitals?

 

[Gawquon3]

Does anyone have any advice on how to write a script that decolonizes every province in the game except capitals?

every_province = {
    limit = {
        # is_capital = yes Edit: had a brainfart, is_capital no, obviously
         is_capital = no
    }
    decolonize = this
}

 

[zaint]

I run a modded game and strangely thou, that code decolonizes most of the map but it also removes entire nations ( even their capitals ) and for some reason leave other larger nations on the map.

 

[grotaclas]

I run a modded game and strangely thou, that code decolonizes most of the map but it also removes entire nations ( even their capitals ) and for some reason leave other larger nations on the map.

Try "is_capital = no" instead

 

[Gawquon3]

Yes Grotaclas is right, that's what it should have been. What is weird though is my wrong script should have decolonized only capitals. Try is_capital = no first, then I'm curious if there is any difference in behavior between the new decolonize = this and the still-working-last-time-I-checked own = ---

 

[zaint]

It worked!

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[grotaclas]

What is weird though is my wrong script should have decolonized only capitals

I think what happens is that every_province goes through the list of provinces in order of their province id. When you decolonize the capital of a non-OPM, they first get a new capital before the game continues with the loop. If that new capital has a higher province ID, it will get decolonized as well, once the loop reaches that province. This could happen multiple times

 

[Gawquon3]

That makes sense, amd it would explain why larger nations escaped destruction, more chances to hit a province with a lower id than the previous capital.