Event delays

[goobermaster]

I am creating an event chain that starts with one, than that triggers others etc.. but I do not know what year this will execute, so I do not have a set date for the beginning of the chain.

So my question is this: can I trigger an event from another, but put a delay of a week or so on the actual execution of it?

 

[Passivocalia]

I am creating an event chain that starts with one, than that triggers others etc.. but I do not know what year this will execute, so I do not have a set date for the beginning of the chain.

So my question is this: can I trigger an event from another, but put a delay of a week or so on the actual execution of it?

Check out the different intervention events for Spanish Civil War. The starting event doesn't automatically triggerevent them, but the intervention events require that the starting event must have occured before they fire.

 

[Luxor]

So my question is this: can I trigger an event from another, but put a delay of a week or so on the actual execution of it?

You can't have event B to trigger after a given amount of days after event A. This is not how offset works.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

I am creating an event chain that starts with one, than that triggers others etc.. but I do not know what year this will execute, so I do not have a set date for the beginning of the chain.

So my question is this: can I trigger an event from another, but put a delay of a week or so on the actual execution of it?

If you're first event isn't date specific I believe you've got to start using flags and offsets.

So, if you want 'Choice A' of EVENT1 to be the one which triggers the 'EVENT2', add this to the command line:

command = { type = setflag which = EVENT2  } ## Specific flagname not important!

Then, for EVENT2, you've got have the trigger and date conditions like this:

[B]	trigger = {
             flag = EVENT2
		}[/B]

	name = "<<Blahblah>>"
	desc = "<<Blahblahblah....>>"

[B]         date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
	offset = 10
	deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1949  }[/B]

This means EVENT2 will fire sometime in the next 10 days after EVENT1.

There may be an easier way to do this, but this is how I generally make these sorts of events!

 

[Luxor]

This means EVENT2 will fire sometime in the next 10 days after EVENT1.

But you can't tell EVENT 2 to not fire before x days after EVENT 1, which is what goobermaster asked, if I understood correctly.
Offset gives an upper limit and not a lower one.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

But you can't tell EVENT 2 to not fire before x days after EVENT 1, which is what goobermaster asked, if I understood correctly.
Offset gives an upper limit and not a lower one.

No, I don't it is possible to have the event not fire before a specific number of days, without getting unneccessarily complex!

He said he wanted a delay of about 'a week or so', so putting the offset at 10-15 would probably be the best guarantor of this, although you can of course never tell what the random number generator is going to decide...

 

[goobermaster]

Thank you very much for your help!

The flag method worked perfectly!