Agreement reached in the Venetian culture thread.
All events parsed and OK
These are all new events.
event = {
id = 326010
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Enforced Galley Service"
desc = "Until 1545 the oarsmen in the galleys were free sailors enrolled on a wage. They were originally Venetians, but later Dalmatians, Cretans and Greeks joined in large numbers. Because of the difficulty in hiring sufficient crews, Venice had recourse to conscription, chaining the oarsmen to the benches as other navies had already done."
style = 2
date = { day = 3 month = october year = 1545 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = december year = 1549 }
action_a ={
name = "Pressgang"
command = { type = manpower value = 2 }
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
command = { type = galleys which = -1 value = 20 }
command = { type = naval value = 750 }
}
action_b ={
name = "Old system is best"
command = { type = treasury value = -50 }
command = { type = population which = 370 value = -2000 } #Veneto
}
}
event = {
id = 326011
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Direct Taxes"
desc = "The 'Monte Vecchio', was a system of forced loans and bonds, it was evident by 1453 that this traditional system of financing wars would no longer work. In 1463, levies were moderated and regularized and made more equitable. These new series of bonds, called the 'Monte Nuovo' had assurance of regularly paying 5 percent, this seemed so good that the Monte Nuovo were bought voluntarily by both Venetian and foreign investors."
style = 1
date = { day = 20 month = september year = 1463 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = november year = 1466 }
action_a ={
name = "OK"
command = { type = stability value = 1}
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = -1 }
command = { type = treasury value = 200 }
command = { type = domestic which = centralization value = 1 }
command = { type = inflation value = -3 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = 1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326012
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Office of Agriculture"
desc = "This office was founded in 1556, and was established for the improvement of agriculture by increasing acreage under cultivation and encouraging private investment in agricultural improvement. The consistent rise in the price of grain during the 16th century encouraged the transfer of capital from trade to the land."
style = 2
date = { day = 11 month = august year = 1556 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = july year = 1559 }
action_a ={
name = "Grain Office"
command = { type = provincetax which = -2 value = 1 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
command = { type = domestic which = land value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = 1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326013
trigger = {}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Wisdom of our ancestors"
desc = "Gasparo Contarini, politician and Venetian diplomat expressed the approval which surrounded Venice's constitutional arrangements, not only among the Venetians but throughout Italy and in foreign lands, where men were astonished at Venice's greatness, her long independence, her resistance to Italy's tragic loss of freedom and, not least, her emerging unscathed from the war against the League of Cambrai. In his work Contarini suggested that the secret of Venice's greatness lay in the co-existence of Aristotle's three types of government, monarchy, oligarchy and democracy."
style = 2
date = { day = 12 month = may year = 1520 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = june year = 1523 }
action_a ={
name = "Virture and Integrity"
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = centralization value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = -1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326014
random = no
country = VEN
name = "The public bank"
desc = "The first public bank was set up by the Venetian government in 1587 after the collapse of a private bank, ai-nid public outcry. It was known as the Banco delta Piazza. A second public bank, the Banco del Giro, was started in 1619, and in 1638 the Banco delta Piazza was abolished. These banks played a very important role in financing the Republic's wars, by issuing representative money."
style = 2
date = { day = 20 month = march year = 1587 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = april year = 1590 }
action_a ={
name = "Show me the Money"
command = { type = ADM which = 1 value = 12 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
command = { type = inflation value = -3 }
command = { type = loansize which = 100 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326015
trigger = { NOT = { exists = BYZ }
OR = { owned = { province = 480 data = VEN }
}
}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Byzantine refugees"
desc = "After the fall of Constantinople and as the Ottomans advanced across Greece in the 14th century many Venetian outposts became filled with Byzantine refugees. To cope with this influx of people the Venetian authories decided to send most of the refugees to the island of Crete."
style = 1
date = { day = 22 month = november year = 1424 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 14 month = december year = 1499 }
action_a = {
name = "Accept our downtrodden friends"
command = { type = population which = 480 value = 5000 } #Crete
command = { type = domestic which = mercantilism value = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = 480 }
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 6 value = 2 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326016
trigger = { NOT = { exists = BYZ }}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Stradioti"
desc = "After the fall of Constantinople many of the Byzantines troops from the old military elite took service with Venice as Stradioti light cavalry. Among them came famous names like Graitzas Palaeologos, from the last Byzantine ruling family. Graitzas eventually rose to command all Venetian light cavalry. The Stradioti were far superior in ability than the current Croatian 'cappeletti' light cavalry than were in Venetian use."
style = 1
date = { day = 27 month = july year = 1460 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = june year = 1490 }
action_a = {
name = "Welcome the Elite"
command = { type = CAV which = -1 value = 10000 }
command = { type = domestic which = land value = 1 }
command = { type = provincemanpower which = 820 value = 1 } #Corfu
command = { type = domestic which = offensive value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = 1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326017
trigger = {}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "The new Line"
desc = "The backbone of the Venetian fleet had always been its galleys and galleasses. Naval battles were decided by boarding, as had been the case at Lepanto. But naval tactics had been revolutionized by the galleon, with rows of cannon on its sides, and by the Line-of-battle fleet, which derived from it. Venice chartered some Dutch and British ships, and adopted merchant ships for military purposes. After this the first line ship was built in the Arsenal in 1667, to the design of a British ship. In the next 50 years 68 of these ships came from the Arsenal's shipyards."
style = 3
date = { day = 20 month = march year = 1667 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = april year = 1670 }
action_a = {
name = "Welcome the new fleet"
command = { type = warships which = -2 value = 10 }
command = { type = domestic which = land value = -1 }
command = { type = gainmanufactory which = 368 value = navalequipment }#Istria
command = { type = cash value = -200 }
}
action_b = {
name = "Continue to use galleys"
command = { type = galleys which = -2 value = 5 }
command = { type = domestic which = land value = 1 }
command = { type = land value = 500 }
command = { type = domestic which = innovative value = -1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326019
trigger = { exists = TUR
atwar = no
NOT = { alliance = { country = VEN country = TUR }
}
}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Blinding the two eyes of the republic"
desc = "Without warning, the Ottoman sultan sent a huge fleet into the Ionian sea, and when the Venetians fought poorly in the battle of Zonchio, the Turkish army and navy combined to capture nearly all the Venetian strongholds in Greece, including Modon and Coron, which since 1204 had been considered the 'two eyes of the Republic'. Although Venice with Spanish help captured the islands of Cephalonia and Ithaca it was poor compensation for the loss of 'their eyes'. Groaning under the financial burden of the war and wishing to be free to face Italian complications, Venice made peace by surrendering claims to most Albanian and all mainland Greek cities."
style = 1
date = { day = 9 month = may year = 1489 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 20 month = october year = 1513 }
action_a ={
name = "Lost friends"
command = { type = remove_countryculture which = albanian }
command = { type = domestic which = mercantilism value = 1 }
command = { type = relation which = SPA value = 100 }
command = { type = war which = TUR }
command = { type = relation which = PAP value = -50 }
command = { type = relation which = TUR value = -100 }
}
action_b = {
name = "Lost claims"
command = { type = remove_countryculture which = albanian }
command = { type = removecore which = 360 } #morea
command = { type = removecore which = 359 } #hellas
command = { type = treasury value = -100 }
command = { type = relation which = TUR value = 100 }
command = { type = population which = 820 value = 3000 } #corfu
}
}
event = {
id = 326018
trigger = { exists = ALB }
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Gift from Skanderbeg"
desc = "Venice's staunchest ally against the turks, Skanderbeg, the Albanian 'Athlete of Christendom', died of malaria in 1468. In his mountains he had held his own against the fury of the Ottoman army even when it was led by the sultan in person. He bequeathed his country and his cause to Venice as 'the most faithful and valiant of his allies', but Venice was able to defend only a few major Albanian cities while turkish armies occupied the others. "
style = 1
date = { day = 2 month = july year = 1468 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = june year = 1480 }
action_a ={
name = "New Friends"
command = { type = add_countryculture which = albanian }
command = { type = domestic which = offensive value = 1 }
command = { type = relation which = TUR value = -100 }
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = -1 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326020
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Enlargement of the Arsenal"
desc = "Venice's most striking success in rising to the Turkish challenge was its expansion of the industrial output of the main base. In 1473 the senate ordered the addition and inclusion of the ghetto 'casting foundry', to the newest Arsenal. This enlargement could construct and store reserves of ships, cannons and other military arms. In additon, manpower in the arsenal reached 6000 employed men for peace or military duty. The elite of Venetian infantry were drawn from the ranks of the Arsenalotti, the highly skilled and well-paid craftsmen of the Arsenal."
style = 1
date = { day = 25 month = march year = 1473 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = april year = 1498 }
action_a ={
name = "New Arsenal"
command = { type = gainmanufactory which = 370 value = weapons } #Veneto
command = { type = domestic which = quality value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = innovative value = 1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = 370 value = 2 }
command = { type = INF which = -2 value = 5000 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326021
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Fire in the Arsenal"
desc = "A fiery explosion in the Arsenal's gunpowder warehouse in 1539 rocked the great shipyard and showered Venice with debris. After a second explosion in 1569, authorities ordered that gunpowder be store on two remote island out in the lagoon."
style = 2
date = { day = 11 month = november year = 1539 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = october year = 1569 }
action_a ={
name = "Fire"
command = { type = domestic which = quality value = -1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = 370 value = -1 }
command = { type = losemanufactory which = 370 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326022
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Upgrade the fortifications"
desc = "In order to reinforce the eastern border against the Turks and the Habsburgs, Venice decided to build a fortress. In this way Paimanova was built to the design of Giulio Savorgan, in a nine-pointed star."
style = 2
date = { day = 7 month = october year = 1593 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = september year = 1599 }
action_a ={
name = "Erect new fortress in Veneto"
command = { type = fortress which = 370 value = 1 } #Veneto
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
command = { type = treasury value = -200 }
}
action_b ={
name = "Upgrade the provinces instead"
command = { type = treasury value = -50 }
command = { type = fortress which = -1 value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = offensive value = -2 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326023
trigger = { exists = MLO exists = TOS exists = PAP }
random = no
country = VEN
name = "The Polesine"
desc = "The pope had sought Venice's help against the king of Naples, leaving her a free hand against Ferrara. He subsequently became alarmed by Venice's success, however, and while Florence and Milan intervened in Ferrara's favour, Sixtus IV had recourse to an interdict in order to stop Venice. At the peace of 1484 Venice was allowed to retain 'the Polesine', which she had conquered."
style = 1
date = { day = 13 month = june year = 1482 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 3 month = november year = 1484 }
action_a ={
name = "Support the Pope, careful"
command = { type = treasury value = -100 }
command = { type = badboy value = 2 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = -2 }
command = { type = CAV which = -2 value = 5000 }
command = { type = casusbelli which = PAR value = 27 }
}
action_b ={
name = "Let it be"
command = { type = removecore which = 390 }
command = { type = population which = -2 value = 2000 }
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 6 value = 2 }
command = { type = relation which = PAP value = -50 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326024
trigger = { exists = MLO
exists = TOS
event = 228003
}
random = no
country = VEN
name = "Another Lombard war"
desc = "In 1447, Filippo Visconti died leaving no male heir, Milan's citizens proclaimed a republic and urged a warm alliance with the republics of Venice, Florence and Genoa. But Florence was ruled by Cosimo de Medici and he resolved to support Sforza in order to check Venice. Francesco Sforza fought the Venetian-paid armies to a standstill, until mutual exhaustion."
style = 1
date = { day = 19 month = july year = 1447 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 2 month = april year = 1454 }
action_a ={
name = "OK it's war"
command = { type = INF which = -2 value = 5000 }
command = { type = relation which = MLO value = -100 }
command = { type = casusbelli which = MLO value = 48 }
command = { type = relation which = TOS value = -100 }
command = { type = MIL which = 1 value = 24 }
}
action_b ={
name = "accept the Duke"
command = { type = desertion which = -2 value = 2000 }
command = { type = merchants value = 3 }
command = { type = population which = -2 value = 2000 }
command = { type = relation which = TOS value = 50 }
command = { type = DIP which = 2 value = 24 }
}
}
event = {
id = 326025
trigger = { exists = POR }
random = no
country = VEN
name = "The Spice Trade"
desc = "In 1499, Girolamo Priuli picked up news on the Rialto of a Portugese fleet's arrival in India. The new found route of the Portugese would never amount to anything said the senate. Priuli went to the other extreme and prophesied the new route would enable the Portugese to sell spices at a fraction of the cost the Venetians paid."
style = 1
date = { day = 1 month = august year = 1499 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 1 month = july year = 1515 }
action_a ={
name = "OK"
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 12 value = 3 }
command = { type = domestic which = mercantilism value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = 1 }
command = { type = relation which = POR value = -100 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -2 }
}
}
