Flags and province

[kelumden]

This thread is geared to the use of flags as managed by the commans setflag and clrflag, not
the global flags (from 0 to 6).
Those flags are called user country flags in Harvard's Exhaustive Bible of Event Scripting
(a really good source of information! Thanks for the job).

If I understand well the mechanism, when such a flagh is defined, it is restricted to
the country the event applies to.
What happens if the event is triggered for a province ? Harvard states that "the event should happen
for whoever owning a certain province". I would believe that user country flags are also concerned by
this and, therefore, that such a flag declared in a province-specific event is defined in the context of
the country owning the province. Is this true ?

BTW, it should be interesting to be able to define global flags, applying to the scenario as a whole.

 

[Ayeshteni]

In my understanding it will not work.

The event will trigger for whoever owns the province, but the game will ignore any command that has setflag in it (similar to if a command has relations +50 with Scotland and no scotland exists).

Setflag commands can only be placed in events for a specified country tag.
Clearflag commands can only be placed in events for a specified country tag.
Flag triggers can only be placed in events for a specified country tag.

yours
Ayeshteni

 

[kelumden]

The following sequence works perfectly: first event sets the flag but occurs at the level of the province, while the second one relies on the same flag being set and performs the test at the level of the country.

event = {
  id = 1999901
  name = "Trial event 1"
  desc = "Setting flag throu province owned by Portugal"

  province = 442

  date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1419 }
  deathdate = { day = 2 month = january year = 1419 }

  action_a = {
    name = "OK"
    command = { type = setflag which = PORTestSequence }
  }
}

event = {
  id = 1999902
  name = "Trial event 2"
  desc = "Reading flag at country level (Portugal)"

  country = POR

  date = { day = 4 month = january year = 1419 }
  deathdate = { day = 5 month = january year = 1419 }

  trigger = { 
    flag = PORTestSequence
  }

  action_a = {
    name = "OK"
    command = { }
  }
}

 

[Ayeshteni]

The following sequence works perfectly: first event sets the flag but occurs at the level of the province, while the second one relies on the same flag being set and performs the test at the level of the country.

event = {
  id = 1999901
  name = "Trial event 1"
  desc = "Setting flag throu province owned by Portugal"

  province = 442

  date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1419 }
  deathdate = { day = 2 month = january year = 1419 }

  action_a = {
    name = "OK"
    command = { type = setflag which = PORTestSequence }
  }
}

event = {
  id = 1999902
  name = "Trial event 2"
  desc = "Reading flag at country level (Portugal)"

  country = POR

  date = { day = 4 month = january year = 1419 }
  deathdate = { day = 5 month = january year = 1419 }

  trigger = { 
    flag = PORTestSequence
  }

  action_a = {
    name = "OK"
    command = { }
  }
}

But OK where in the savefile is the setflag kept? If it records it it will be under the country description of who owns the province at the time the first event kicks right?

The second event would only kick in if POR had the first event, unless you have a second event for ALL countries (which will make the savefile HELLISHLY long).

Do I understand you correct?
yours
Ayeshteni

 

[Khephren]

Yes, you are right. Unless Portugal has the first event, it will never get the second. (Unless you make a buttload of events for each country, as you said)