Question about modding province to be unhabitable

[ItsJustMyShadow]

Greetings!
I have a little problem with modding provinces in I:R, mainly - I try to make certain provinces not owned by any tag, unhabitable and impassable. I'm removing the core, control, own from default setup and changing prov values in map folder and yet when I launch I:R it still shows that province is owned by the former owner... It does change terrain to unhabitable but that's all... Is there some other place where info about province owners is stored?
Thanks in advance.

 

[crownsteler]

As far as I know the \ImperatorRome\game\setup\main\00_default.txt files is where province ownership isset. Are you suure you editted that file and removed the instance? Furthermore; are you sure you are trying to load a new game? As this doesn't work for new games.

If so: could you post your work here so we can inspect it?

 

[ItsJustMyShadow]

As far as I know the \ImperatorRome\game\setup\main\00_default.txt files is where province ownership isset. Are you suure you editted that file and removed the instance? Furthermore; are you sure you are trying to load a new game? As this doesn't work for new games.

If so: could you post your work here so we can inspect it?

Thank you for response! No matter what change about province I want to do in 00_default in setup (changing ownership of province or making it unowned) it doesn't show in the game. Dunno if it matters but I'm doing changes in game files not via steam mod tools, so maybe I should use this?
Are you saying that changes to main/setup/default do not work when starting new game?? I thought that this is a way for the game to set vanilla setup of map layout etc. Which files should I edit then to see change in the new game? I've looked through entire game folder and I don't see any other reference to province ownership :/
Btw, I'm trying to do a simple mod that removes parts of map (by setting provinces to unowned and unhabitable) I'm not interested in, just to increase performance a little.

 

[crownsteler]

I am sorry, I ment saved games. It doesn't work for saved games, it does work for new games.

Did you create a seperate mod folder? And could you post it here?

 

[ItsJustMyShadow]

I am sorry, I ment saved games. It doesn't work for saved games, it does work for new games.

Did you create a seperate mod folder? And could you post it here?

Yes, now I tried with creating mod via I:R launcher steam mod tool and there I added setup/main/default_00. The only thing I'm changing right now is in the line defining Maurya:

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MRY = {
//many lines of code I do not touch //

own_control_core = {
4353 4354 4356 4357 4358 4359 4360 4363 6827 7660 #sauvira_region
4489 6826 6850 6851 6853 6856 6857 7412 7414 7220 7415 #abhiria_region
4487 4491 4488 4495 4496 6843 7310 7390 7413 7417 7432 7658 #maru_region
4473 4480 7428 7431 7434 7435 7436 7438 7439 7442 7448 7466 #madhyamika_region
4438 4439 4472 4481 4484 7309 7387 7388 7389 7437 7440 7443 #matsya_region
4469 7305 7306 7307 7308 7444 7445 7446 7447 7460 7465 #surasena_region
4434 4435 4466 4485 7219 7409 7376 7470 7471 7472 #west_cedi_region
4428 4429 4430 4433 4465 7370 7371 7373 7473 7476 #kasi_region
4425 4426 4427 4436 7375 7404 7218 7408 7410 7411 #pancala_region
4424 4453 4456 7377 7381 7403 7405 7406 7407 7378 #ahicchatra_region
4437 4451 4455 7374 7379 7380 7382 7482 7483 7484 #kosala_region
4448 7360 7479 7488 #vrji_region
4441 4449 7369 7372 7477 7478 #malla_region
4440 4442 4443 4444 4445 4462 4463 7367 7338 7400 7659 7480 #magadha_region
4446 4447 7327 7328 7337 7345 7364 7365 7368 7392 #anga_region
7325 7326 7335 7398 7493 7497 7498 7499 7651 #pundra_region
7177 7362 7363 7391 #radha_region
7329 7336 7358 7359 7393 7397 #vanga_region
7322 7650 #kamata_region
4404 4405 4421 4422 4423 4452 #kuru_region
4308 4316 4317 4318 4320 4322 4326 4327 4328 4329 7314 7492 #taxila_region
7361 #kasmira_region
4331 4380 4384 4395 4398 4399 7399 #panchanada_region
4315 #madra_region
4319 4321 4330 4348 4350 4351 4383 4385 4386 #sivi_region
4349 4371 4373 4374 4378 4372 4375 4377 4381 4382 #north_sindhu_region
6833 6840 6844 6845 6841 6825 6842 #kaccha_region
4475 4479 4482 4486 4498 7425 7426 7301 7304 7433 7441 7450 #avanti_region
4470 4474 7302 7303 7449 7461 7462 7463 7464 7469 #dasarna_region
4478 4497 4499 7300 7416 7418 7419 7427 7429 7430 #anartta_region
6854 6855 6858 6859 #aparanta_region
6813 6823 6816 6817 6824 6814 6819 6818 6828 6834 6829 #outer_saurashtra_region
4494 6831 6835 6820 6839 6832 6846 6847 6838 6837 6836 6830 #inner_saurashtra_region
4352 4355 4361 4362 4364 4365 4366 4368 4376 #south_sindhu_region
6526 6527 6815 6821 6822 6848 6852 6849 #patalene_region
6860 4388 4369
}

//more code I do not touch //

}

And i want to change it to this:

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MRY = {
//many lines of code I do not touch //

own_control_core = {

}

//more code I do not touch //

}

So that Maurya wouldn't have any province at the game start. Also, what I managed to do, is to change provinces to be impassable. But when I launch game Maurya still owns those impassable provinces, aka doing changes to own_control_core does nothing at all.

 

[crownsteler]

Could you post your work here? Because what you are describing should work?

 

[ItsJustMyShadow]

Could you post your work here? Because what you are describing should work?

Man, this is the only change I'm making. I'm using launcher mod tool to create mod in documents, then folders: setup/main and copy/paste default_00.txt from game folder and edit it there to remove ownership of provinces. It doesn't make a difference
I know that it SHOULD work and the whole thread is my wondering why it doesn't :/
I've tried reinstalling game, deleting entire Imperator documents folder etc.

 

[ItsJustMyShadow]

I actually managed to create event that removes all pops, aka deletes countries, at the game start from regions I want, so it's a workaround... Still strange that editing main file doesn't work