Can the value of planetary bombardment be moddified at the empire level?

[Kaptain5]

I would like to make a mod that includes a technology that increases the damage from orbital bombardment.

I know it is possible to modify orbital bombardment because that is what shield generators do. In the building file they use the modifier "planet_orbital_bombardment_damage = -0.75"

I would like to modify orbital bombardment on the empire level. I tried "empire_orbital_bombardment_damage " but it did not have any effect.

Could someone with more modding experience please tell me if what I am trying to do is possible?

 

[Kain2K]

Just try the planet_orbital_bombardment_damage modifier on the country scale with a very high value (10 for example) and look what happens. That is at least what I do in those cases.

 

[sillyrobot]

The wiki has a list of known modifiers. Glancing at the list, I only see a planetary modifier for orbital bombardment.

 

[Kaptain5]

Just try the planet_orbital_bombardment_damage modifier on the country scale with a very high value (10 for example) and look what happens. That is at least what I do in those cases.

How would I make a planetary modifier effect a whole empire like that?

 

[Kain2K]

How would I make a planetary modifier effect a whole empire like that?

My experience is that most planetary modifiers can be put into the global scope by just using it there. In that case a planetary modifier would automatically be applied to any eligible planet. Problem is, the most propable thing that would happen is that it manipulates the bombardment damage you receive, instead of the damage you do. So you might want to try to change the scope with a limit tag or something.

But: I haven't modded anything aside from edicts. So I can't be sure what the posibilities with technologies are. In theory, everything you put into the modifier tag should be fully scriptable. So just try and see what happens. The worst thing that could happen is that your game crashes.

 

[Persepheus]

The worst thing that could happen is that your game crashes.

It's not easy to get the game crashed by mods

I think, there is a hook for bombarding in the on_action.txt, where you can get the bombarded planet scope and apply the modifier by event. That's not perfect, but it's doable...

 

[Kain2K]

It's not easy to get the game crashed by mods

I know. But since it is possible, it's the worst that could happen.

I think, there is a hook for bombarding in the on_action.txt, where you can get the bombarded planet scope and apply the modifier by event. That's not perfect, but it's doable...

As far as I remember there is a hook. You should be able to increase the damage if a certain flag is set. But can you set a flag through a technology?

 

[Kaptain5]

Thanks for the help! My current plan based on this to have a technology set some sort of empire-wide flag and when an empire with the flag bombards a planet the planet being bombarded receives say +50% planetary damage. I would like to do this without an annoying event that will flash every single time a planet is bombarded (like what used to happen with hydrogen bombing back in the day >.< RIP).

If I am successful with this approach I will post back here in the future on the off chance that another modder would like to do a similar thing or has to work around similar limitations to moddifiers.

 

[Fisk]

Thanks for the help! My current plan based on this to have a technology set some sort of empire-wide flag and when an empire with the flag bombards a planet the planet being bombarded receives say +50% planetary damage. I would like to do this without an annoying event that will flash every single time a planet is bombarded (like what used to happen with hydrogen bombing back in the day >.< RIP).

If I am successful with this approach I will post back here in the future on the off chance that another modder would like to do a similar thing or has to work around similar limitations to moddifiers.

event flashing? If you use hide_window = yes, shouldn't that make the event not be visible to the player at all?