Changing province ownership in save games
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To change who controls a province in a save game, (notepad works with editing saved games) you first have to look for the province number of the province you are wishing to change. The Provinces come listed after the Centers of Trade which you can identify because of the 'cot' as you scroll down.
Now, a province will be listed as such:
} 28={
flags={
}
owner="SWE"
controller="SWE"
core="SWE"
core="FIN"
culture=finnish
religion=catholic
capital="Borgå"
citysize=1787.933
garrison=1000.000
base_tax=1.000
manpower=1.000
trade_goods=fish
workshop=yes
courthouse=yes
fort1=yes
history={
owner="SWE"
controller="SWE"
add_core="SWE"
add_core="FIN"
culture=finnish
religion=catholic
hre=no
base_tax=1.000
trade_goods=fish
manpower=1.000
fort1=yes
capital="Borgå"
citysize=1020.000
discovered_by="latin"
discovered_by="eastern"
1487.1.1={
controller="REB"
}
1487.5.24={
controller="SWE"
}
1500.1.1={
citysize=1096.891
}
1510.1.1={
citysize=1200.089
}
1512.1.1={
workshop=yes
}
1520.1.1={
citysize=1313.000
}
1530.1.1={
citysize=1436.537
}
1540.1.1={
citysize=1571.707
}
1545.1.1={
courthouse=yes
}
1550.1.1={
citysize=1719.598
}
}
Now, all you have to do is change the owner and controller, and core if you wish to have a core on the nation, from SWE to the 3 letter code of the country you wish to change it to. Say I want to change the owner to Japan, I will insert JAP into the spot where SWE is. Should look like this:
} 28={
flags={
}
owner="JAP"
controller="JAP"
core="JAP"
core="FIN"
culture=finnish
religion=catholic
capital="Borgå"
citysize=1787.933
garrison=1000.000
base_tax=1.000
manpower=1.000
trade_goods=fish
workshop=yes
courthouse=yes
fort1=yes
history={
It's as simple as that. And you can also do a little more tweaking with each provinces stats as well the same way.

