BUG: WON'T FIX: Leaders Remain

[Gary]

Leaders Remain

Leaders Remain: When choosing sides for the English Civil War the text indicates that for whichever choice is made "you will lose the services of xxx forever". Playing Grand Campaign as England timing around about the English Civil War. When choice is made I assume that either Prince Rupert or Cromwell should be removed. For both choices all leaders remain in game. All of the military leaders remained available. EUIIv1.05

 

[sirbruce]

Definitely a bug... if the leader is already alive, sleepleader won't kill them.

I think the best way to fix this is to go through all the events with sleepleader and make sure their leaders start dates are changed until after the event can trigger. In some cases it may be appropriate to break a single leader into two different ones covering different time periods depending on what choices are made (much like some monarches).

Bruce

 

[AndrewT]

70 : Type: Events | Status: WONTFIX | Severity: MAJOR
Command "sleepleader" cannot kill an existing leader
Reported In: 1.01 | Correction planned In: | Corrected In:

 

[sirbruce]

Andrew, can we at least as an alternative submit modified leaders files that work around this problem?

Bruce

 

[unmerged(5664)]

Originally posted by sirbruce
Andrew, can we at least as an alternative submit modified leaders files that work around this problem?

Bruce

How would this work? Put the deathdate of both leaders much earlier (at the end of the ECW), but then bring the correct leader back again afterwards?

 

[AndrewT]

Originally posted by sirbruce
Andrew, can we at least as an alternative submit modified leaders files that work around this problem?

Bruce

Of course, this has already been done in one case.

 

[sirbruce]

Originally posted by BarristerBoy


How would this work? Put the deathdate of both leaders much earlier (at the end of the ECW), but then bring the correct leader back again afterwards?

I think in some cases the answer is easy... Cromwell's start date, for example, is almost the same as the event. Most of the time they start the leader in the appropriate year but the event happens a few months later; all we have to do is move the leader until the day after the event and he'll get slept or awakened as appropriate. The impact of getting the leader a few weeks later than before isn't a big deal.

In some other cases where there was a leader who lasted a significant amount of time before possibly "defecting" or whatnot, you can break him in two parts... one reign that ends before the event can occur and another that brings him back if the right choice is made. Not pretty, I admit, but preferable to the alternative.

Bruce