Didn't become a unification candidate?

[Bapito]

I had a post before about something else but this is the same Austria campaign but that doesn't matter

So, as I said I was playing Austria
had a bit of a civil war that knocked me down to a major
no problem I can become a great power again
right! I did it! I became a great power again!
...
2 months later, I am staring at my screen looking at a Prussian German empire that unified without a single war, only Prussia was a unification candidate

What the actual ♥♥♥♥

[TheCollector]

I have not played Austria, but there are usually 2 ways to unify a Greater Nation in V3 :
- conquer all pieces and accumulate infamy or
- build up peaceful relations, research Nationalism -> Pan-Nationalism

[KaiserChillhelm]

Originally posted by TheCollector:

I have not played Austria, but there are usually 2 ways to unify a Greater Nation in V3 :
- conquer all pieces and accumulate infamy or
- build up peaceful relations, research Nationalism -> Pan-Nationalism

Considering you seem to know not much about forming nations via the actual game mechanic to do so, your answer is quite okay...

@Bapito
The first unification (northern states) or the second one (whole germany)?

[Bapito]

Ok so I am going to describe what happened:
I became a major power
All of a sudden Prussia unifies north Germany and soon after the rest of Germany
(even though most of the south german states were my subject)
I reloaded to an older save and jacked my prestige up to become a great power again
(I though that was the problem, maybe the game registers great powers as candidates)
2 months after I became great power again, in the exact same dates as before, Prussia does it's thing
I couldn't even do a leadership play, only support Prussia

[Bapito]

Oh yeah and I was a couple years off researching nationalism, I also resolved the Shlechwig-Holstein question, though I transferred the state to Prussia so they could help me defeat that civil war that started all this

[KaiserChillhelm]

If you have the savegame, i would recommend switching nations once and try to do this on your onw. Maybe you can get an insight why...

[Bapito]

I think it is just the requirements getting f'd up because I became a major power and the game didn't bother registering me as a candidate
maybe I continue this campaign as a egalitarian Danubian federation type of thing, I mean, I'm the only European nation with census suffrage after all

[KaiserChillhelm]

Sure seems as "requirements gone nuts", but there also can be other reasons.
Just use main menu and change. Maybe this teaches you (and after that maybe us) a thing or two.

Or upload the safegame and pass it over. Im intrigued ^^

[Bapito]

Huh???
I swiched to Prussia and the requirements for the NGC were:
-Prussia has researched Nationalism
-Prussia is a unification candidate for Germany
-At least one of these
--Austria is controlled by a player (???)
I have NEVER seen this before

[Bapito]

Well, in the end it still completed
another thing to note is that Prussia was on it's way to lose a power ranking and were becoming a major power, though there wasn't enough time till they unify, and the requirements of controlled by player didn't seem to matter

Also I forgot the mention that I was in pretty good relations with Prussia, hoping that I could unify more easily

[KaiserChillhelm]

Well good to know! Thx for the information.
I cant remember i saw this requirement before, but i guess it was shown bc you started with the austrian nation and switched to Prussia.

I think this is supposed to be a balancing thing, but not sure if i like it.