Mod: Better Independents v2.1

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

You sure that you're not playing a "no-independents" map? Those have the independents eliminated by map commands.

This seems to hit the problem right on the nose, Snacktime. There are two ways of removing independents: By this mod, which restricts their availability via prohibitive cost, or by map commands (which requires a specific map file and eliminates ALL independents by assigning invalid poptypes to all provinces).