Checking hidden characteristics

[enf91]

Allegedly you can see your characters' health and fertility in certain files. What are these files?

 

[Hawkeye1489]

its in the savegame. If you search for the character you are after, if you look in the traits line, it should read martial, diplomacy, intrigue, stewardship, health and fertility in a numeralized score

 

[enf91]

The savegame? That .eug or .cfg? Does it open with Notepad?

 

[zachhcaz22]

The .eug will open with notepad, but some program like notepad++ or pspad can be better for handling these files since they can check syntax.

 

[enf91]

So how do I find my characters? There's just a string of numbers and no dynasty name. And what does the enormous bunch of numbers after dna mean?

 

[TempestDK]

So how do I find my characters? There's just a string of numbers and no dynasty name. And what does the enormous bunch of numbers after dna mean?

First you need to find your TAG ... that is at the top of the file, f.x.: Saved = CATA.

name = "Hastings (1066)" header = { 
    name = "NAME_1066" 
    tutorial = no 
    startyear = 1066 
    endyear = 1452 
    [B]saved = CATA [/B]
    optionmode = 0 
    set_ai_aggresive = 0 
    set_difficulty = 2 
    set_gamespeed = 3 
    optionfile = "scenarios\save games\Duchy of Barcelona_1068_November_17.eug.cfg" 
    id = { type = 4712 id = 17264 }

The use the search function to look for that TAG.

First entry found should have your ruler's DNA string.

CATA = { 
        gender = male 
        type = duchy 
        [B]dna = "73022283560445"[/B] 
        title = { CATA C204 C205 } 
        }

You then search for that.


.. and you should end up here:

character = { 
    id = { type = 10 id = 110520 } 
    dyn = 394 
    tag = CATA 
    name = "Ramon Berenguer" 
    date = "10230001" 
    gender = male 
    religion = catholic 
    culture = "catalan" 
    score = { gold = 150.700 prestige = 164.375 piety = 119.716 } 
    [B]attributes = "7.8.4.5.5.5.442716560" [/B]
    traits = { deceitful = yes valorous = yes scholarly_theologian = yes } 
    father = { type = 10 id = 110530 } 
    mother = { type = 10 id = 107661 } 
    loyalty = 1.000 
    dna = "73022283560445" 
    }

Nobody really knows what (if anything) the last 9 digits are used for.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

So how do I find my characters? There's just a string of numbers and no dynasty name. And what does the enormous bunch of numbers after dna mean?

The easiest way IMO is this

1. Open your save-game with Wordpad
2. At the top of the file you can see which nation you are currently playing. In this case below it is ARAG, which is Aragon.

name = "Hastings (1066)" header = { 
    name = "NAME_1066" 
    tutorial = no 
    startyear = 1066 
    endyear = 1452 
    [COLOR="Lime"]saved = ARAG[/COLOR]

3. Now search for (ctrl+f) for ARAG, untill you see this entry (usually this is the 2nd entry for the nation you are playing

ARAG = { 
        gender = male 
        type = kingdom 
        dna = "[COLOR="lime"]55795106273513[/COLOR]" 
        title = { ARAG C207 } 
        }

4. Now you know the dna of your current ruler, in this case
55795106273513. So now do a search for this dna (dna determines what your character will look like in the game, the code has no other meaning).

5. Usually there is only one character with that specific dna, but always check (by his name f.e. to see if you have the correct character)

In this case, my ruler is named Sancho

character = { 
    id = { type = 10 id = 110500 } 
    dyn = 442 
    tag = ARAG 
    name = "Sancho" 
    date = "10420001" 
    gender = male 
    religion = catholic 
    culture = "castillan" 
    score = { gold = 500.000 prestige = 100.000 piety = 100.000 } 
    attributes = "6.7.7.8.5.6.377390624" 
    traits = { flamboyant_schemer = yes } 
    father = { type = 10 id = 110510 } 
    mother = { type = 10 id = 1077 } 
    loyalty = 1.000 
    dna = "[COLOR="lime"]55795106273513[/COLOR]" 
    }

6. The hidden stats you can find in the line called attributes

 attributes = "6.7.7.8.5.6.377390624"

7. From left to right they mean the following

6 = martial
7 = diplomacy
7 = intrigue
8 = stewardship
5 = fertility
6 = health
377390624 = nobody knows for sure what these numbers represent. But they seem to have something to do with the names that the children of this character will get.

EDIT
What is this ??? Me posting later then someone else !! I am getting old

 

[Hawkeye1489]

OMG!....was...was Veld just emu'd? What is this world coming too!

Sorry Veld, I had to

~Hawk

 

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Out of curiousity does anyone know the limits of the stats (martial, diplomacy etc.) and the limits of the health and fertility stats. I feel like editing a file and giving a character and his wife full health and fertility and see how many kids they can produce.

2 parents, full fertility + indulgent and lustful traits..... better have an army of wetnurses.

 

[enf91]

Thanks all. Two more things:
What's the "date" line mean, and how is it arranged?
My character has

father = { type = 4712 id = 21020 } 
    mother = { type = 4712 id = 15615 }

Does "type" refer to culture and religion? id is probably just another personal tag, I suppose.

 

[Gulluoglu]

Out of curiousity does anyone know the limits of the stats (martial, diplomacy etc.) and the limits of the health and fertility stats. I feel like editing a file and giving a character and his wife full health and fertility and see how many kids they can produce.

I think I read in another thread that someone said the maximum number of children a woman can have is 10, including all living and dead children. No limit to the number a father can have, though, so if your wife hits her max, arrange an accident.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Thanks all. Two more things:
What's the "date" line mean, and how is it arranged?

It is the birthdate of the character, 10420001 means january 1 1042

My character has

father = { type = 4712 id = 21020 } 
    mother = { type = 4712 id = 15615 }

Does "type" refer to culture and religion? id is probably just another personal tag, I suppose.

There are two different character types, one type (4712) means that the character is an existing character from the scenario, the other type (of which I don't know the number right now) means that the character is created after the start of the game.

Every character in the game has his own unique ID, so the father of this character has ID 21020 and his mother ID 15615.

I think I read in another thread that someone said the maximum number of children a woman can have is 10, including all living and dead children. No limit to the number a father can have, though, so if your wife hits her max, arrange an accident

I never heard (or notice) of such a limit.

 

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I think I read in another thread that someone said the maximum number of children a woman can have is 10, including all living and dead children. No limit to the number a father can have, though, so if your wife hits her max, arrange an accident.

Really? My Duke of Bohemia had around 15 children with one wife. ;P