Capital not moving!

[Ayeshteni]

Lo folks. Another puzzling query. I have two events to move capital to Torino or Rome, if Italy should have those two provinces. Problem is the events dont fire.

they are...

#capital move to torino#
event = {

	id = 120628
	trigger = {
		owned = { province which = 404 data = ITA }
		atwar = no
		}
	random = no
	country = ITA
	name = "Capital to Torino"
	desc = "Historically after the restoration of the Kingdom of Italy in the 1860's the capital of the Kingdom was moved to Torino (turin). We have the honour of owning Torino, shall we move our capital to this city?"
	style = 2

	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1419 }
	offset = 360
	deathdate = { day = 31 month = december year = 1820 }

	action_a = {
		name = "Yes, let us move"
		command = { type = capital which = 404 }
		command = { type = vp value 5 }
		command = { type = setflag which = torino }
	}

	action_b = {
		name = "No we are fine here"
		command = { type = vp value = -1 }
	}
}

#capital move to roma#
event = {

	id = 120629
	trigger = {
		owned = { province which = 399 data = ITA }
		atwar = no
		}
	random = no
	country = ITA
	name = "Capital to Rome"
	desc = "Historically after the restoration of the Kingdom of Italy in the 1860's the capital of the Kingdom was moved to Torino (turin). However the heart of Italy lay in Rome, which managed to hold out from the Kingdom of Italy until the 1870's when the French soldiers guarding the city were recalled due to a crisis at home. This allowed the Italians into Rome and the capital of the ancient Empire was restored. shall we move our capital to this city?"
	style = 2

	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1419 }
	offset = 360
	deathdate = { day = 31 month = december year = 1820 }

	action_a = {
		name = "Yes, let us move"
		command = { type = capital which = 399 }
		command = { type = vp value 5 }
		command = { type = setflag which = rome }
	}

	action_b = {
		name = "No we are fine here"
		command = { type = vp value = -1 }
		command = { type = relation which = FRA value = 25 }
		command = { type = relation which = HAB value = 25 }
	}
}

any ideas on why they dont fire. As far as I know there is no error in the events script wise, so am a little puzzled . Was playing as Savoie, formed Italy (ITA) and all other events kicked swimmingly.

yours
Ayeshteni

P.S. was not at war when the provinces were owned.

 

[jdrou]

Did you run for at least a year after the conditions were met? Your 'offset = 360' means the conditions will only be checked once every 360 days. Do they fire from the console (e.g. event 120628 ita)? Could also be related to the tag change. Have you tried saving after the tag change and seeing if they fire after reloading?

 

[Ayeshteni]

Did you run for at least a year after the conditions were met? Your 'offset = 360' means the conditions will only be checked once every 360 days. Do they fire from the console (e.g. event 120628 ita)? Could also be related to the tag change. Have you tried saving after the tag change and seeing if they fire after reloading?

Have not tried them from console (stupid of me, I should have done that first o ).

As to waiting....hehe...yes I have. I have just finished the game (1820) and I became Italy around 1530ish (never lost Piedmonte) and diplo-annexed the Papal States in late 1700s. Tag change therefore not the problem. Will try them from the console and get back to you.

yours
Ayeshteni

 

[Ayeshteni]

interesting

I started the game as Savoie (binned my save games), and used the console to see if the torino capital move event worked. It fired, and the capital moved to torino......

HOWEVER, option a stated; Move capital to torino, 0 vp NOT 5.

The Roma event also fired and also stated 0vp and not 5!!!

yet both events fired from the console

yours
Ayeshteni

EDIT: BUGGER, BUGGER, BUGGER o (just noticed it should be vp value = 5 o )

This may explain why it didnt fire? Although surely it should still fire, just not give vp option ARGH annoyed that I binned my save games I could have tried it out to see if it worked. Oh well, never mind, sorry to clutter up the board.

*mutter mutter, ALWAYS check the script..........*

 

[jdrou]

Your province trigger does not need the word 'which'. Should be:

          owned = { province = 404 data = ITA }

It should also work with 'data = -1' instead of 'data = ITA'.

 

[Havard]

Your province trigger does not need the word 'which'. Should be:

          owned = { province = 404 data = ITA }

It should also work with 'data = -1' instead of 'data = ITA'.

Yep. That seems to be it. When the trigger is messed up there's no wonder it doesn't trigger

A good advice is to allways check the syntax in a parser, like Recess Monkey's Event Syntax Validator when things don't work. This would have shown all the errors:

* Syntax error in object Event, state <trigger>, at line 6 char 2, with buffer 'owned = { province which = 404 data = ITA }'
* Syntax error in object Event, state <action_command>, at line 22 char 14, with buffer 'type = vp value 5 } command = { type ='
* Syntax error in object Event, state <trigger>, at line 37 char 2, with buffer 'owned = { province which = 399 data = ITA }'
* Syntax error in object Event, state <action_command>, at line 53 char 14, with buffer 'type = vp value 5 } command = { type ='

 

[Ayeshteni]

hehe, thanks folks o

will swallow pride and use the event parsers.
[LAME EXCUSES]In my own defense, I do write a lot of events with out errors, it is just a couple that sneak through[/LAME EXCUSES]

thanks though for your responses

yours
Ayeshteni