The French Occupation Zone (GER) starts the game as a Great Power. This of course frees it from French domination, which is a problem. The cause of this is that GER starts with a lot of foreign investment and consequently a ridiculously high industrial score, making it a GP, although one in danger of losing status.
After investigating the issue I believe that there's a bug in Victoria 2 that causes foreign investment to be misapplied. While it is ostensibly possible to define foreign investment per bookmark, the game treats all definitions the same and applies the same values to all bookmarks; in case of multiple definitions, the last one in the file wins. Consequently, the justified foreign investment of 1992 is also applied in 1946.
I can think of these possible solutions:
Remove foreign investment from GER.
Create a separate tag for the French zone.
On a related note: How do any of the occupation zones in Germany and Austria have prestige greater than zero?
The French Occupation Zone (GER) starts the game as a Great Power. This of course frees it from French domination, which is a problem. The cause of this is that GER starts with a lot of foreign investment and consequently a ridiculously high industrial score, making it a GP, although one in danger of losing status.
After investigating the issue I believe that there's a bug in Victoria 2 that causes foreign investment to be misapplied. While it is ostensibly possible to define foreign investment per bookmark, the game treats all definitions the same and applies the same values to all bookmarks; in case of multiple definitions, the last one in the file wins. Consequently, the justified foreign investment of 1992 is also applied in 1946.
I can think of these possible solutions:
On a related note: How do any of the occupation zones in Germany and Austria have prestige greater than zero?