Firing 4 events from a master event

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Whats the best way (if even possible) to have one event fire (master event) and have one of four events fire from that one, depending on the date that the master event fired?

Is it even possible, or should I just have four events sleep and activate depending on the date?

Cheers

 

[Ayeshteni]

I do not think it is possible.

There is a year trigger so if you wish to space the master event according to year (rather than months) then you could have four master events (each triggerring a single event) based on what year it was:

by having year = 1937 for the first

year = 1939
NOT = { year = 1937 } for the second etc.

Ayeshteni

 

[Black Guardian]

hmm...

the first event could look like that:

event = {
	id =[ID of your master event]
	random = no
	country = [TAG of your country]

	trigger = {  your trigger conditions } 


	name = "master event"
	desc = "This will fire a special event depending on the  trigger date of this master event"
	style = 0
	picture = ""

	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 } 	
	offset = 1 
	deathdate = { day = 1 month = december year = 1947 }

	action_a = {
		name = "OK"
		 
	}

}

Now you have to create the 4 other events, which have to have different start and death dates PLUS the trigger condition:

trigger = { event = [ID of your master event} [/COLOR]

For example event 1 having:

date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
offset = 1
deathdate = { day = 1 month = december year = 1939 }

event 2:

date = { day = 2 month = december year = 1939 }
offset = 1
deathdate = { day = 1 month = december year = 1943 }


....and so on
trigger condition is the same, but event1 won´t fire if your master event fired after 1st of december 1939...

All right?

 

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Thx Black Guardian, that pretty much how I thought Id need to do it. I was actually after a way of having the Master event trigger 4 child events. The child events would not have a trigger. I think Ayeshteni is right, that it cannot be done.

 

[Black Guardian]

Thx Black Guardian, that pretty much how I thought Id need to do it. I was actually after a way of having the Master event trigger 4 child events. The child events would not have a trigger. I think Ayeshteni is right, that it cannot be done.

Hmm, i think it could work... why don´t you try? Creating 5 events isn´t that much work.
If the master event has happened, which is the trigger conditions of the other four ones, one of your child events will fire (which one belongs to the period of time in which you play at the moment triggering the master event)

For example your master event fires 1940, the first child event is not active, because the deathdate is before this year. The third one is not active yet, so it won´t fire...
The only problem could be, that the third child-event fires, when the startdate (e.g. 1942) is reached. But it´s no real problem, you can prevent this using the trigger

"NOT = { event = [your first/second/third/fourth child event]" }

it should work ^^