Outside ironman, when a country take the ''wrong'' decision toward you....

[BaronNoir]

(example, warlords in China games accepting to be puppets instead of being DOWable)...

when the decision is ''taken'' ? Does reloading change it ? Or it's at the start of the game ? When you take the decision yourself ?

 

[shepherd352]

My understanding is that a "seed" is created that will produce the same result regardless of how many times you reload. I'm not sure when the seed is created. This makes a big difference as it determines what you can do to manage the RNG.

 

[Bunnytob]

Yep. Since about 1.6 or 1.7, RNG for events is predetermined and changes based only on the game seed and time when the decision is made.

 

[squid_hills]

I may be wrong, but I'd heard that the "seed" is created when you start a national focus. So if you take the NF to puppet the Chinese warlords and the result is exactly none of them submitting, you would have to load a save from before you started the NF to potentially get a different end result.

 

[Aeroclub]

I may be wrong, but I'd heard that the "seed" is created when you start a national focus. So if you take the NF to puppet the Chinese warlords and the result is exactly none of them submitting, you would have to load a save from before you started the NF to potentially get a different end result.

It will only work if you reload that and take a different focus first...as mentioned above, the event outcome is determined by the seed, which is stored in the save file for the entire playthrough but also takes time of the decision as an input.

 

[Bunnytob]

I may be wrong, but I'd heard that the "seed" is created when you start a national focus. So if you take the NF to puppet the Chinese warlords and the result is exactly none of them submitting, you would have to load a save from before you started the NF to potentially get a different end result.

I can confirm with relative certainty that that's incorrect unless they changed it for BftB.