How to Disable Diplomatic Range

[Anonymous01]

I increased it from 700 to 7000 in the mod's defines.lua file but got a startup crash.

How can I safely disable it? Do I need to disable it in the base game too?

 

[AnaxXiphos]

I increased it from 700 to 7000 in the mod's defines.lua file but got a startup crash.

How can I safely disable it? Do I need to disable it in the base game too?

You probably got a crash because you edited the defines.lua file with an editor that doesn't properly support that file's specific encoding. Return the file to its default state (by reinstalling HIP, most likely) and then try editing with Notepad++ or a similar fully featured text editor.

If, on the other hand, you were using a proper editor, then it's possible you either improperly edited the file (make sure you didn't accidentally remove a comma or equals sign or an entire value entry) or the game doesn't like diplomatic ranges which are over a certain size.

 

[theStormWeaver]

You probably got a crash because you edited the defines.lua file with an editor that doesn't properly support that file's specific encoding. Return the file to its default state (by reinstalling HIP, most likely) and then try editing with Notepad++ or a similar fully featured text editor.

If, on the other hand, you were using a proper editor, then it's possible you either improperly edited the file (make sure you didn't accidentally remove a comma or equals sign or an entire value entry) or the game doesn't like diplomatic ranges which are over a certain size.

That last one is likely true, but not likely the problem.
700 is big enough to require a 16 bit int, and 7000 is small enough to fit in a 16-bit int.

 

[Anonymous01]

Notepad++ did the trick. Thanks very much.

EDIT: Where can I disable the holy war cool-down timer?

 

[Think0028]

That's a more thorough modification, that requires modifying all the holy war cb types.

 

[Saintrl]

If you have VIET you can simply disable it by going to the customization options and selecting "Tweak CBs" and such and then hit "Holy War Cooldown". By default it's on cooldown but you can disable it.

 

[zijistark]

That last one is likely true, but not likely the problem.
700 is big enough to require a 16 bit int, and 7000 is small enough to fit in a 16-bit int.

All of the integer defines are 32-bit integers. What does that have to do with anything? As much as 16-bit integers do.

AnaxXiphos was saying that the accepted limits by the game's internal formulae of these numbers are not published anywhere, so caveat emptor.

 

[zijistark]

Notepad++ did the trick. Thanks very much.

EDIT: Where can I disable the holy war cool-down timer?

That's a more thorough modification, that requires modifying all the holy war cb types.

Anonymous01 and others, word of advice: make a personal sub-mod. Don't go editing the HIP CB files, etc. when you don't have to do so. Insulate yourself from future HIP releases / reinstalls by encapsulating your changes in a personal sub-mod that depends upon HIP. See the Modding section @ http://www.ckiiwiki.com/ for help on how to structure a .mod file and override files in HIP cleanly.

A better way to effectively get rid of holy war cooldowns w/o risking messing with the CBs (which are only going to get more and more complicated in the future, believe me) would be to put this in some file in your sub-mod's events/ folder:

namespace = my_mod

character_event = {
  id = my_mod.1
  desc = OK
  hide_window = yes

  only_playable = yes

  trigger = {
    has_character_modifier = holy_war_cooldown
  }

  option = {
    name = OK
    remove_character_modifier = holy_war_cooldown
  }
}