When does secedeprovince fail?

[AlanC9]

While trying to fix Paradox' busted Italian surrender event, I noticed a weird problem with secedeprovince. I'm trying to get Italy to return North Africa to France (due to another Paradox error, Italy owns the provinces after Vichy collapses), but I can't do it. I can transfer the provinces to the USA but not to France. Anyone know why?

 

[unmerged(55538)]

Please take a look here, perhaps it might help...

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=242397

The problem is, that the game engine executes commands simultaneously, rather than one after the other. Having a peace-command in an event, while seceding provinces in that same event always causes problems...

EDIT: example: USA controls an italian province. When a surrender event occurs (containing a (white) peace-command, giving back control of all provinces) the engine still asumes, that this particular province is controlled by the USA. Hence, the secedeprovince-command is ignored, because it tries to give away a province not controlled by Italy (Only exception: to give it to the USA is possible).

 

[AlanC9]

You are correct, sir. I'd reworked the event chains so often I'd forgotten what order stuff was happening in. Thanks.

 

[Atruejedi]

SMEP already includes a fixed Italian surrender, if you'd like to use one.