How to disable expeditionary force spamming

[e-stab]

I'm sure most of you had that problem: You're playing e.g. Germany and your allies spam you with expeditionary forces you never wanted. Here's the solution I use to get rid of it:

Copy and paste the following line in a new file called "no_exps.ai" in folder /ai/switch/:

no_exp_forces_to = { GER USA }

Then copy and paste the following text into an event file of your choice (obviously the file has to be used by the scenario you play), e.g. germany.txt in /db/events/:

########################################
# Event to trigger the "don't send me expeditionary forces!" AI file
# by G'Kar
########################################
event = {
	id = 345678
	random = no
	country = USA

	persistent = yes

	name = "No_Exps.ai"
	style = 0
	desc = " "

	action_a = {
		command = { type = ai which = switch/no_exps.ai }
	}
}

Now you can (even in games already started) forbid country [TAG] to ever send you expeditionary forces again. Simply open the "cheat console" with F12 and enter

"event 345678 [TAG]" (without the quotes)​

[TAG] is the so-called country tag, e.g. HUN für Hungary oder ROM for Romania. In case of success you'll see that event "No_Exps.ai" happened for country [TAG].
(Ctrl-F12 closes the console, by the way. )

Event-ID and included countries (above version works when playing Germany or the US) are easy to change. Be careful not to put too many countries in it at the same time though: E.g. with ENG (the UK) in the AI file and using the event for Canada when playing as the US, they'll stop sending troops to the UK as well - which might not be desired. I don't see problems when using it playing Germany though.

(The country tag "USA" used in the event is arbitrary, the event only fires when called from the console anyway.)

It won't work under all circumstances, as sometimes the AI insists on putting troops in provinces controlled by you (usually overseas) and hands over their command to you, but it should work for most cases.

 

[corwin]

Very neat
Certainly beats burrowing in the save-file. Thanks!

 

[hito1]

Very nice, indeed. Thank you.

 

[unmerged(51738)]

G'Kar, I want your children!
Please announce this in the regular HOI2: Doomsday forum too, you will save many lives(and small kittens)!

 

[unmerged(58571)]

A warning: Some countries are already defined not to send exp forces to some countries they might end up allied to but are fighting in distant theatres; using that event will replace the already existing list.

 

[Jalex]

finally whenever I build up a big alliance its not going to send me 50 random divs I never intend use that fill up the screen with popups

Thankyou !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jalex]

finally whenever I build up a big alliance its not going to send me 50 random divs I never intend use that fill up the screen with popups

Thankyou !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jalex]

srry for double posting thought I hadn't posted already

 

[krieger11b]

When I try to use as Germany for example "Event 345678 AUS" it says it cannot open file and the game crashes. It will work while playing Germany but for everyone else it crashes.

 

[e-stab]

Hmm...

This:

When I try to use as Germany for example "Event 345678 AUS" it says it cannot open file and the game crashes.

and this:

It will work while playing Germany but for everyone else it crashes.

is a contradiction.

 

[unmerged(62347)]

I've just tried to use the above(G Kar's) code for my CORE 0.25 game, and it failed to work(I've been assured that CORE is the same as DAIM as regards the AI files, it's only the tech-trees that are radically different).
Anyway, I was only able to get the successful "no_exps.ai" entry to appear when I put in either the code "event 345678 WAL " or "event 345678 WALL" , after pressing the F12 console button. As I understand it, only the "WALL" term, not "WAL", is the correct abbreviation for Wallonia. It may have worked since it was almost the only puppet-state in the Axis, that didn't have any units put under my control(I'm currently playing as Germany).(actually I don't think Wallonia has any units at all, but it would take ages to check the whole set-up to verify this).

Anyway, for every single other puppet or allied nation(well, Bosnia, Nationalist Spain, Hungary and Romania, so far), it's caused the game to crash every time. A message inevitably appears stating that " the "switch/no_exps.ai" file could not be opened, and then it asks whether you want to continue, with the options below to "ignore" "retry" etc., but which you can't press as the game has stalled completely.

I want to make clear that I copied every minor detail described in the event-code and no_exps.ai file, and didn't miss out any brackets etc, and it still didn't work. It occurred to me that maybe the lack of brackets in the no_exps.ai file might have caused the error, but it didn't work even with the extra brackets. I even tried the event-code 345678 etc. without any mention of the US, just using Germany (ie "GER") instead, but that didn't work either.

Any ideas? It seems odd that I can only get the command to work for Wallonia. Could the problem be that the command gets blocked if I already have expeditionary forces allocated to me by the country in question? That would mean a laborious reallocation of units back to each country, before carrying out each relevant command.

 

[Shadow86]

When I try to use as Germany for example "Event 345678 AUS" it says it cannot open file and the game crashes. It will work while playing Germany but for everyone else it crashes.

Try saving and reloading before triggering the event. The game doesn't acknowledge changes in the game's files (except perhaps graphic ones) if such modifications didn't exist when at the time of the last save.

 

[unmerged(62347)]

Sorted out my above problem bu putting the no_exp_forces_ratio to 0.0000

 

[unmerged(49800)]

Bump!

So this thread helped me to stop all expedition forces, I just added GER to all the tags I could find.. {no expedition..} And it worked, for all countries other then :

Nationalist Spain!!!

I dont think I missed them in the Save Game, so is there another place for them? Where are they hiding?

Thanks on any hints

EDIT : It might have something to do with the special nature of Spain, being Nationalist or Royalist or so? I dont think SPA is the countrytag for Spain?
Playing Germany myself this campaign.

 

[Azues]

Well...fighting alone usually works good also :rofl:

 

[unmerged(56218)]

Sorry, I don't get how to use this. Would you please write the code for Germany preventing Spain from sending troops to Germany.

 

[unmerged(62347)]

I wasn't able to use that particular event-code without the game crashing to desktop. MY solution was to simply search for each "exp_force_ratio" and set it to "0.0000" each time. This prevented me from getting any expeditionary forces at all, but I then, later on, assumed military control over one or two nations such as Scandinavia and Romania when I needed the extra troops.

 

[unmerged(72110)]

Just testing if I'm correct or not:
Suppose I'm playing as GERMANY, & I don't want ITALY & HUNGARY to send me Exp force..

then the "no_exps.ai" would be :

no_exp_forces_to = { GER }

& then, the germany.txt would be:

########################################
# Event to trigger the "don't send me expeditionary forces!" AI file
# by G'Kar
########################################
event = {
id = 345678
random = no
country = ITA HUN

persistent = yes

name = "No_Exps.ai"
style = 0
desc = " "

action_a = {
command = { type = ai which = switch/no_exps.ai }
}
}

Is that correct?????

& if not, can you please correct me?

 

[e-stab]

Is that correct?????

Almost. The no_exps.ai is right, but don't change the event text! (The country tag in it - note the singular - actually is irrelevant.)

Use the AI file you posted and write "event 345678 HUN" and "event 345678 ITA" (without the quotes) in the console. Any further information necessary should be in the first posting.

 

[unmerged(72110)]

but don't change the event text! (The country tag in it - note the singular - actually is irrelevant.)

you mean that I shouldn't type "ITA HUN" in the following command:
event = {
id = 345678
random = no
country = ITA HUN

if not to change country, then what to type instead?

sorry.. I just need to get the idea here, & all will be fine with me...