Maryland, D.C., Delaware should be called Chesapeake

Figured out a solution. Open the 00_companies_mp1.txt file (file path will be something like Steam\steamapps\common\Victoria 3\game\common\company_types), find the entry for Colt, and change all the references to Connecticut to instead reference Massachusetts.

It looks like this mod breaks the ability to create the new Colt company. Any ideas on how the mod might be edited to allow that to work?

Yah thats fine

Can I use your mod in my mod if I give you a shout-out? I'm also making changes to the map so I need it for compatibility.

I really like the merged states. Thank you for creating this.
There seems to be a bug though that prevents me from establishing any companies as the US. Could you check why it's not recognizing the building levels?
Also, everyone in the newly merged states starts out unemployed. Though that solves itself within a few months after game start, so it's not critical.

update it

Update

The population in merged staes doesn't spawn employed, making almost a million people unemployed, starving, mad and poor. This also causes for the population to struggle because of high prices of grain.

The mod already adjusts the flag to account for that

Given the US flag changes the number of stars with the number of incorporated states, won't this make the flag have 6 fewer stars on it? If so, can you like increment the state count by 6 to compensate for that? It's a cosmetic thing I know, but still.

I've put together a patch for Hail, Columbia! here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3305449360

Very consistent crashing in the 1960s with this mod

Updated the mod and didn't run into any crashes so it should work but if there's any crashes or bugs lmk.

I decided since it would be very time consuming and I have other mod ideas I want to work on that I wont be changing what states are merged right now, but I added some comments in each of the files explaining what steps should be taken if you want to merge more states so if you guys want to merge more copy the mod and just add stuff for the states you want to merge.

Two main issues with this mod:
1. Game crashes more often with this mod. No clue what's causing it. Maybe there's an event trying to call one of the nonexistent states?

2. White House no longer exists. You know that building with the massive bonus to admin centers that we never get to use because you can never get the population to staff the admin centers? That could also stack with a skyscraper if like you also managed to get more population to Washington DC? This is a huge deal-breaker considering one of the main reasons I wanted a mod like this in the first place was to be able to actually use the white house's bonus. Like seriously just merge Maryland and Delaware into DC instead of into Maryland.

can u divide california into southern and northern regions
Los Angeles and San Francisco

waiting for your update

This mod crashes the game for me. It's very consistent, it's always in the early 1850s. More specifically, March 1850 in my Spain game and February 1852 in my Japan game. Always. Every single time. And yes, I'm sure it's this mod.

I'm working on updating it should be done soon

Hi!
Mod overall works great, but is it possible to return/combine buildings from a merged states?

At leat nonbuildable, like White House?

update needed for 1.7, the game crashes for me. Will Continue investigating

Is it okay if I upload a mod that includes parts of this mod in it? I will give credit of course.

update please, it causes crash in my game.

Would it be possible to have a (sub)mod for only Washington DC being merged into Maryland.

please make another mod if you're going to merge other states. I prefer you keeping it like this.

Probably there should be a mechanic to merge and divide states to some extend in vanilla game.

can you make the us just one giant state. I think that would be best. Thanks!

as if actual land area is remotely relevant to victoria 3

Combined dakotas would be 140000 mi^2 ,carolina would be 80000, virginia would be 60000.
Although I researched it and historically the dakotas weren't split until 1889 so it makes sense to combine them if virginia is being combined.

the dakotas state would be smaller than combined virginia and combined carolinas

Im gonna merge west virginia with virginia but im waiting until 1.7 is released. Also considering the carolinas. For the dakotas I feel like the new state would be too big and for new jersey I feel like it just needs more arable land since the amount it has seems very low considering the amount of population increase it had over the time period.

West Virginia should absolutely be merged with Virginia. merge the Dakotas too.

I think New jersey should be merged with Pennsylvania. It has great potential but it never has enough population to fill jobs due to low arable land.

@ephemer1s Are you sure this mod is whats causing the crash? I can't seem to reproduce it. I played two games as USA past 1846 with no crash. Also I think the interest group part is normal game behavior since interest groups only become marginalized if the political strength is less than 4% and they aren't in government.

btw I noticed that while playing with this mod, IG with political strength less than 5% will not marginalize themselves anymore, in my last playthrough I have 4.7% evangelical and 3.9% armed forces both influential, could probably be a reason crashing the game.

No clue, I've tried 3 different runs, with only this mod, and did literally nothing other than normal play-through while the game just crashes around that time.

Do you now how to reproduce the crash

Still triggers unknown crash in several of my US run around 1843ish

Fixed

I'll check that out

1.5ver -> console -> annex han -> O
1.6ver -> console- > annex han -> crash!
?!.....

I updated the game version, 1.6 didn't touch anything that this mod changes so it should still work fine

please update..

Thank you for this work, their are to many states in game.
Using livestock ranches and sorting on job-seekers gives annoyingly unpopulated states.
After your work the smallest states tend to be in Europe:
Tyrol, Switerland, Gelre-holland, NorthRhine-Rhur, Hesse Between Rhineland and Brunseich, Western Saxony Brunswick. Estremadra split in to north and south and Merged.
I have tried to suggest regions with the same water shed as hill are a natural impediment to trade.

@Moros The changed modifiers probably work with the states changed in this mod but it should probably be compatible besides that

Please condense the entire world!

How compatible is this with mods that change state modifiers?

i need this