Events--I surrender!

[unmerged(8570)]

I had a whole lot of stuff written here, but I decided to press delete when I realized how arrogant and stupid I was being. I'm sorry for distracting us so much from the main point. Just as long as every last event we put in can happen throughout a long period of time (for example, an event for the russian revolution would not be set to happen in october 1917 but in any war as long as there was rebel control of the capital and high serfdom), everything should be fine.

Luck should not be a factor in our predictions of the future; events that happen on set dates must be thrown out to stop our own favoritisms and fancies from being forced upon people, that's why I find things like monarch and leader lists bad (and why I had that "party" idea in which you elect certain parties, the elections of which determine your the skills of your monarch, whose name is irrelevant).

As for leader lists, if we could have your normal colonels gain experience through time but still die now and then, that'd be great but since we can't, military leaders are the only thing really left up for discussion. Unless of course you want me to shut up once and for all about enforcing our cruel visions upon the games of the people, in which case I will.

 

[Prince Eugene]

I am in total agreement about political debates and they will NOT happen if we want this to even get started. As for leadersI like your ideas about the colonels and they should gain rankk advancement too. I think that we could have all marshals better than the generals and them better than lt. generals, etc. This way you wouldn't have a sucky marshal controlling the battle when you have a Brigidier that is twice as good. I guess most of the names for the leaders would be made up. Maybe we could put on our names as the leaders Any suggestions?

 

[Kyran]

no problem, just find a good site filled with names catagorized by country and pick a first name, click here . surnames are a little more difficult, i'll look for a unified big data base of surnames. I'll see what i can find tomorrow, kinda getting late here.

 

[Kyran]

Here is some help on the surname thing, i'll get cracking on maybe finding something better or picking through all the tiny sites in tomorrow...

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Originally posted by Kyran
no problem, just find a good site filled with names catagorized by country and pick a first name, click here . surnames are a little more difficult, i'll look for a unified big data base of surnames. I'll see what i can find tomorrow, kinda getting late here.

I don't think you'll have to find first names, they aren't that important, but we'll need them for HoS (head of state) and Monarchs.

Maybe we could put on our names as the leaders. Any suggestions?

Of course we can (if the others want to). It could make sense, since we all (well, most of us I guess) have a chance to be generals, Majors, etc.

But if we should be leaders, I think everyone else that have worked with/helped us with this project should have their names too. As you said, all names will be fictional, so it's the same if we use fictional or some names from here. But if they don't want their name in there, we won't/can't force them.

I suggest we discuss this more later, we need to do the "hard work" first

EDIT: an from now on, let's discuss events only.

 

[Gathenhielm]

Events is based on history and we dont have a history, wouldnt it be good if people post their history (i.e. What should happen in the future) somewhere (here maybe?) and we can see if we can put them somewhere in the global history. Just a suggestion, Im not a Die-hard supporter of this.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Now we're coming somewhere

good Idea, this thread was indeed dedicated to events.
Come with suggestions here (in this thread), but you don't need to script the event yet. i suggest one of us (gathenhielm or seraphim, I have alot work to do already) makes a list over free ID's, so that no one uses the same ID. AFAIK right now we haven't used any ID's.

Later someone will PM (I guess) the idea, and what ID's they should use, to those who have volunteered to script the events (we still need more. Look in the "We need scriptors" thread)

 

[Gathenhielm]

Ok I do it. Is it too big to start a new thread about it or should I keep it on a list in my computer?

 

[unmerged(7924)]

You can make a thread, but you don't have to post it yet. Make one on your computer, and post it later, when/if we need it. First, we must find out how many countries there are (I'll do it, while I make the TAG list) and give each country some ID's each. Those ID's will count for their leaders, events, monarchs etc. The major countries should have some more than the others, but you can fix that when I'm finished with the TAG list.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

I've got an Event idea: "your country have won the world cup!"

No idea about the stats

 

[Gathenhielm]

Originally posted by Mormegil
I've got an Event idea: "your country have won the world cup!"

No idea about the stats

That can change a lot from country to country. In sweden it has no real political effect, but in Argentina it is deadly serious just dont meantion Colombia

 

[unmerged(7924)]

So make it an event for the fotball crazy countries

 

[Gathenhielm]

The world cup event

event = {
id = ????????
random = yes
name = "WE WON THE WORLD CUP"
desc = "We have one the world cup the people are out on the street celibrating"
style = 5
date = { year = 2002 }
deathdate = { year = ???? }
action_a = {
name = "Yes!"
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
command = { type = revoltrisk value = -2 }
}
}

 

[Kyran]

looks good, could need correct spelling though

 

[unmerged(8570)]

Actually should be stab -1 and revolt risk +2, all those big crowds running around everywhere. Or a multi choice one, "Suppress the Celebrations" or "Use the oppurtunity to make self look good"

 

[Gathenhielm]

Originally posted by seraphim
Actually should be stab -1 and revolt risk +2, all those big crowds running around everywhere. Or a multi choice one, "Suppress the Celebrations" or "Use the oppurtunity to make self look good"

Well I havent seen a world cup celebration turned in to a revolt. And I havent seen a revolt breeak out during time of celebration. And your idea is good but I dont see the different effects.
Btw where did I spell wrong?

 

[Gathenhielm]

The worst that could happen...

event = {
id = ???????
random = yes
name = "We didnt reach the world cup!"
desc = "We has been kicked out during qualification. What shall we do with our team?"
style = 5
date = { year = 2020 }
deathdate = { year = 2300 }
action_a = {
name = "Execute them! "
command = { type = dip value = -1 for 36 month (next qualify) }
}
action_b = {
name = "I feel for mercy today, just put them in jail. "
command = { type = dip value = 2 for 36 month (next qualify) }
}
action_c = {
name = "Deport them! "
command = { type = relation which = -1 value = -100 (who wants useless fotball players anyway?) }
}
action_d= {
name = "Blaim it all on the coach and execute him"
command = { type = stablity value 1 (best way to calm thing down) }
}
}

 

[Kyran]

you used the wrong won in the description and celibrating should be celebrating.

 

[Jayavarman]

How bout we find some futuristic/sci-fi books and make events from predictions in those book. For example, there is a book on Russia in 2020.

 

[Jayavarman]

Also plenty logical events on developing alternative sources of energy to meet the decline of petroleum resources, pollution events etc. Lots of environmental events could be made. Space colonization, landing on Mars, etc. Development of European Union. Overpopulation leading to famine and starvation, population control, etc. So many issues can be turned into events.