Help a poor modding noob with an event :)

[manager12390]

Well, for my first attempt at writing an event, I'm trying to create one that a. unifies Argentina and Uruguay a la Anschluss, and b. makes Montevideo one of Argentina's cores. I followed the wiki to the best of my ability, but the game crashes when I try to start it up now (yes I have a backup, I'm not that big of a noob ) Anyway, here's what I've come up with:

##### Uruguay joins with Argentina

event = {
id = 5043
random = no
country = ARG
style = 0

name = "EVT_5043_NAME"
desc = "EVT_5043_DESC"
picture = "FIN_give_in"

date = { day = 4 month = january year = 1936 }

action_a = {
name = "Excellent"
command = { type = inherit which = URU }
command = { type = addcore which = 849 }
}
}


Right now I'm not interested in the cosmetic part of the event, I'm just trying to give it the minimum for it to work. If somebody would be so kind as to point out what I'm doing wrong and how I can fix it, you would be forever in my gratitude. In the future I'll see about adding a declination option (kinda pointless since I will never decline it, but just for completion's sake) and getting the names and descriptions right. Right now, however, I just want it to work. Thanks in advance.

 

[Kyronea]

You have two possible problems:

1. Your event ID is a duplicate of another event.

2. You don't need that date entry. Without a trigger, the date is unnecessary.

 

[unmerged(90249)]

I think you should do as the anschluss event :

1) wirte an event for Uruguay that will end the game for it, and then trigger the second event

2) the second event will be the one your already did

hope it help

P.S. the best being to duplicate the events for the anschluss, and just change the countries TAG, and the ID

 

[unmerged(58571)]

2. You don't need that date entry. Without a trigger, the date is unnecessary.

Er? Without a date statement the game engine won't know when the event is supposed to fire.

 

[Kyronea]

Yes it will, if it's set to be triggered by another event.

I assumed such an event for Uruguay would have already been written by the original poster. My apologies.

 

[BritNavFan]

Manager: I copied and pasted your event into my game, and it worked fine (other than the event name being EVT_5043_NAME). So it's possibly a bug elsewhere? (In my coding, this is typically unclosed {} or the like in the other events in the same text file.)