Help with trigger

[unmerged(29041)]

I have an important event that involves change of tag, so preferible it should happen while at peace, but upon reaching a certain date, it should happen regardless of anything.

The way I scripted it is:

	trigger = { 
		OR = { atwar = no 
			year = 1490 }
	}


	date = { day = 16 month = january year = 1479 }
	offset = 60
	deathdate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1491 }

But when the country is at peace during the period the event does not trigger. I have checked the Harvard bible but don't find anything wrong with it.

Anybody knows how to make it work? Any help is apreciated.

 

[Hallsten]

I have an important event that involves change of tag, so preferible it should happen while at peace, but upon reaching a certain date, it should happen regardless of anything.

The way I scripted it is:

	trigger = { 
		OR = { atwar = no 
			year = 1490 }
	}


	date = { day = 16 month = january year = 1479 }
	offset = 60
	deathdate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1491 }

But when the country is at peace during the period the event does not trigger. I have checked the Harvard bible but don't find anything wrong with it.

Anybody knows how to make it work? Any help is apreciated.

Strange, your trigger acts as if the OR was an XOR-operator. Try this and see if it works:

	trigger = { 
		OR = { 
			OR = { 	
				atwar = no 
				year = 1490 
			}
			AND = {
				atwar = no
				year = 1490
			}
		}
	}


	date = { day = 16 month = january year = 1479 }
	offset = 60
	deathdate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1491 }

 

[unmerged(40707)]

Is it a random event?

If no, I simply propose :

	trigger = { atwar = no }

	date = { day = 16 month = january year = 1479 }
	offset = 60
	deathdate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1491 }

year trigger isn't necessary in this case and I think it should only be used for random events.
Btw, in random events, date, offset and deathdate are note taken in account (that's what I realised in debugging Petty Kingdoms of the Barbary Coast).

 

[unmerged(29041)]

I tried your suggestion Hallsten, and it did not work either, nor did another variation of it that occured to me from reading it:

	trigger = {
		OR = { atwar = no 
			AND = { atwar = yes 
			year = 1490 }
		}
	}

Yodamaster the event has to take place even if at war. If at peace should take place in 1479. If at war it can wait until 1491.
The sloppy solution would be to duplicate the event, one with the range of dates and atwar=no, and another if the first fails without a war command. But I rather get the trigger working if possible.

But you might be right that a date in the trigger overrides any date in the event. I have no experience with that.

 

[unmerged(45766)]

Then, delete the date, offset and deathdate.

New trigger :

trigger = {
	OR = {
		AND = {
			atwar = no
			year = 1479
			}
		year = 1491
		}
	}

If I'm right, the event should try (first possibility) as soon as it's at peace after 1479, or (second possibility) in any case after 1491.

 

[unmerged(29041)]

Ambassador, that is still suboptimal, since it would only work for 1479 or 1491. There could be war at both with a peace in between, and having it triggering at peace is much preferred.

 

[Garbon]

I think you might have to have two events. As I recall, there is something funky about the date statement in the trigger. And I'm not sure that you can use a date trigger and a date statement.

 

[unmerged(29041)]

Sigh. OK, thanks to all for your help.

 

[unmerged(40707)]

Just a precision : year = xxx in trigger means "Checks if the year is xxx or later"

 

[unmerged(45766)]

Just a precision : year = xxx in trigger means "Checks if the year is xxx or later"

Exactly what I was going to add.

 

[unmerged(40707)]

If I understand correctly, event must fire in 1479 if not at war or between 1480 and 1490 included at war or not :

trigger = {
	OR = {
		AND = {
			atwar = no
			year = 1479
			NOT = { year = 1480 }
			}
		AND = {
			year = 1480
			NOT = { year = 1491 }
			}
		}
	}

This should work.

EDIT : Keep date, offset and deathdate as they are to check event's trigger every 60 days.

 

[unmerged(29041)]

I am a little bit embarrashed, so to speak o o o

When I made several events, I copy pasted the date and modified it to make the deathdate. I changed the date and wrote deathdate in all of them but one. This event wasn't working because the actual conditions were:


date = { day = 16 month = january year = 1479 }
offset = 30
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1490 }

When corrected it works

In any way thanks to all. I have learned more about triggers and conditions. Let's just hope this thread sinks soon into oblivion o

 

[unmerged(40707)]

Let's just hope this thread sinks soon into oblivion o

No, really? (and... on the top of the list for one more - last - day)

 

[unmerged(45766)]

No, really? (and... on the top of the list for one more - last - day)

That's really not nice from you. He just don't deserve this.