As opposed to outright annexation, make the states willing to join into a Special kind of Vassal with Low Liberty desire and the ability to declare war on other vassals, like how Japan operates.

Also once you have all the required provinces to form Germany under your or a vassal's control you can diplomatically form Germany at admin tech 20.

@Valiatus the mod had the vassal option once (although not as direct vassals) but it's too strong and doesn't fit with the motion of a confederation. Additionaly why would states in one confederation be able to fight each other, that would be a ♥♥♥♥♥ confederation.

The forming Germany diplomaticly idea sounds great, I will look into that. I thought about expending the "join" mechanic to South Germany once you have United the North or maybe you have to fight France or something.

Right now I am working on an early Märzrevolution

Btw sorry I deleted some comments due to missclick on mobile.

South germans will now join you if you have the emperor rank or you had the revolution.

Would love to see a small buff towards the factions military ideas so to make it equal with Prussia, as a loss to the Prussian Monarchy is bad enough. The slightly worse military ideas along with the Bundesrat really makes it hard to justify turning into the N. German Con. instead of just staying Prussia; into Germany. Love the mod though, very well done and happy for the future of it.

@NocterOul The national ideas are supposed to be less focused on military compared to prussia but also have more dipl and admin bonuses. If you prefer the military focused ideas of prussia, keep the prussian ideas. (Just don't take the ideas of vanilla germany, they are trash :D)

I am playing the NGC in multiplayer right now and have found several requirements to be too hard/too much.

I have reduced the required provinces to form the NGC in the last update and founding the bundesrat is a optional decision now. Also min autonomy is now 20% but with 30% in the first 10 years.

The new Märzrevolution update also adds decision e.g. enact Karlsbade Beschlüsse (min_autonomy = -10, max_absolutism = 5, yearly_absolutism = 0.5)