Discovery by event

[kelumden]

The idea is the following:

An event simulates the discovery of Sierra Leone by Portugal. Just telling the player he has discovered Sierra Leone is not enough: all the sea zones from Portugal to Sierra Leone should be revealed to the player as part of the trip.

1. How is it possible to reveal (discover) a province by way of an event ?

2. Will the sequence addcore-removecore perform the task ?

 

[Barkdreg]

you could create an explorer/conquistador in the province that needs to be discovered and give him a one-day life.
Now we should find a way to remove the troops/ships he comes with

 

[Nikolai II]

Addcore won't help.

And Barkdreg, desertion should help with conquistadors, but can ships not in ports desert?

 

[kelumden]

you could create an explorer/conquistador in the province that needs to be discovered and give him a one-day life.
Now we should find a way to remove the troops/ships he comes with

How can I select a given explorer when the command is:

command = { type=explorer which=n }​

where n refers to a province.

You maybe mean creating a leader for one day (or removing it immediately).

I thing it will be rather tricky to solve.

 

[Nikolai II]

How can I select a given explorer when the command is:

command = { type=explorer which=n }​

where n refers to a province.

You maybe mean creating a leader for one day (or removing it immediately).

I thing it will be rather tricky to solve.

use "wakeleader" and have the explorers coded into the leaderfiles with designated provinces, would that work?

 

[Stonewall]

you could create an explorer/conquistador in the province that needs to be discovered and give him a one-day life.
Now we should find a way to remove the troops/ships he comes with

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. You can only spawn a leader in a province you own. So, if you out a leader in province 25000 but don't own it, he will simply appear in a province you do own.

 

[unmerged(6159)]

It was once suggested that you create a galley in the sea zone. This could then be removed by a subsequent event. No idea if it really works though. I don't think it's possible for land provinces.

 

[unmerged(10128)]

I dont think it works. From what i can remember, it merely creates a galley inside TI, which you do cannot see nor control. but you can check that it is created when you use the reveal map cheat.

 

[kelumden]

What happens when an event is bound to a province (province=x), the province is not owned by a country and the event fires ? Are the commands in action applied to the province (when they can logically do)?

The situation I envision is the following:

...
trigger = {
  not = { discovered = x }
}
province = x
...
action_a = {
...
  command = { type=secedeprovince which=x data=aaa }
...
}

Will the province x be "discovered" by the country aaa ?

 

[Nikolai II]

I'd say the event won't fire since no country owns it (or the province).

But try it - only way to be sure.

The other solution (used/suggested elsewhere) would be to create an out-of the way nation hidden away (maybe on Fernando Po) that consists of saay a TP - the nation is then given knowledege only of the seazones in question. The Portugal can inherit the nation (and it's knowledge).