USA - Early Secession = No Emancipation?

[Endeavor]

Hey guys - I've been playing the U.S. and it turns out the CSA decided to secede a little early (1854). I've beaten them and I had the "Jefferson Davis Captured" event. However, I still have slaves and nobody is emancipated. What's going on?

 

[Lotus Lo]

Are you using 1.03c? ( older versions IIRC Recon wouldn't fire unless Lincoln was assasinated)

From the event files I do not see a reason as to why... have you waited at least 30 days? The event will check the conditions every 30 days.

 

[blur2005]

Hey guys - I've been playing the U.S. and it turns out the CSA decided to secede a little early (1854). I've beaten them and I had the "Jefferson Davis Captured" event. However, I still have slaves and nobody is emancipated. What's going on?

You know, I can never get Emancipation either. You either have the war start too early, or if the war happens in 1860, I crush them in like three months and go back to the status quo. I hate that.

 

[Lotus Lo]

You know, I can never get Emancipation either. You either have the war start too early, or if the war happens in 1860, I crush them in like three months and go back to the status quo. I hate that.

Hmmm... even if war is over in 3months I still get the Recon event

 

[Endeavor]

Hmmm... even if war is over in 3months I still get the Recon event

It's 1870 (or past) now and still no emancipation. Is there any way I can do it manually or otherwise?

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Not really, I'm afraid, unless you write a custom event for it.

 

[King]

Well you can try hitting F12 and then typing event 14182. If the conditions are met (i.e. the Americna civil war event has fired) you should get the reconstruction.

No wait I know whats wrong here.

Edit: Actually I don't

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Well you can try hitting F12 and then typing event 14182. If the conditions are met (i.e. the Americna civil war event has fired) you should get the reconstruction.

Looked into it, and this should work.

- Has event 14119 happened ("The American Civil War") and did you choose to go to war at that point?
- Have you wiped out the CSA or at least made peace with them?

Those are the two conditions for Reconstruction to happen, nothing else should matter. The deathdate isn't till 1881, so if you're in the 1870's, there shouldn't be a problem.

Edit: do note however, that this is for 1.03c; if you have previous versions, it's a whole other story.

 

[unmerged(2952)]

hmm, I have 1.03C and didn't get reconstruction either; although I managed to deciamte the Confederacy in matter of a year and a half(poor bastards went to war with me following a successful war with Mexico months earlier, all of my soliders were still active and positioned )

 

[King]

Did you declare war straght away or did you wait for the American Civil war event to fire? The game engine may take up to 7 days to fire ACW event.

 

[Endeavor]

Did you declare war straght away or did you wait for the American Civil war event to fire? The game engine may take up to 7 days to fire ACW event.

The South seperated early and I marked it as "Unconstitutional". I thought this would declare war on them and didn't, so I immediately did so. I don't believe the American Civil War event fired because I had already delcared war on them.

Now, however, they're totally wiped out (I annexed them back into the Union) and I had the "Jefferson Davis Caught" event.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Jefferson Davis Captured has a slightly different trigger/event-chain, so it's triggering or not doesn't influence Reconstruction, I'm afraid.

If you could check the event-log in your savegame and see if event 14119 has occurred or not, I think that's the thing that might've gone "wrong" in your case (that it hasn't occurred)

 

[Lotus Lo]

and if 14119 ain't there, you can put it there Recon should then fire

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Unless I'm much mistaken, you need to search at the end of your savegame-file for a long line looking like this:

history = { 21200 21201 21203 21232 21204 21205 21206 21207 21209 21210 21216 21217 etc etc etc

which you should ensure contains 14119 if you want Reconstruction to fire after loading up that game.