How to get an event to fire monthly?

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I've been trying to figure out why I can't get an event to fire every month

here is the event

event = {
id = 24505
random = no
trigger = {
constitution = { type = democracy }
reform = { type = voting_rights level = suffrage }
slavery = yes
}

name = "Slaves are released"
desc = "Due to our Goverment Policies, all slaves are released to be Free"
style = 0

date = { day = 2 month = january year = 1836 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1920 }

action_a = {
name = "Freedom" # Free them all
command = { type = convert_pop_type which = slaves value = labourers }
}
}

When I manually trigger it, it works perfectly fine. But in a Belgium game where I've got a good portion of the East Africian coast, i've ran for 6 months without it triggering.

Anyone have any insights?

Nicholi

 

[JScott991]

Doesn't the offset value effect the timing of the trigger?

 

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If I'm understanding the Offset value correctly, it's checking every X days (where X is the offset)...

Which I wasn't understanding correctly, drat it. Just checked Havards, and offset is the random day value.

Bleh. I want my event to check every 30 days.

Nicholi

 

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Well I'm not an expert, but my understanding is this....

Events will only fire once (except random events). The offset is the number of days (I think, could be months), from the start date that the event will fire. For example, if the event dates were from Jan 1st, 1850 with an offset of 300 and all other trigger conditions had been met, then the event would fire sometime within 300 days(months) of Jan 1st, 1850.

I have been toying with some recuring events. Some ideas include:

- Make it a random event and have an early event which sets the %chance of the random event to be quite high.
- Another idea is to make it a campaign event. Campaign events are random events that fire every 4 years or when you hold an election. Could make a campaign event that would do what you wanted.

 

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I think I have it working, will do one more game to make sure everything fires right, but, the solution turned out to simple / annoying

It is a 2 event step. The first event (which I just made hence need to test) sets 2 local flags. The first flag is set to keep the initial event from firing all the time (heh). The second flag is set to keep the 2nd event firing constantly (not sure how thats going to effect the cpu performance).

The 2nd event looks for the localflag value to be 1, if not, it fires, but never sets the localflag value to 1, hence it's self repeating (hopefully).

If this turns out to be the right stepping stone, then I'll need to modify it for the US so that it doesn't mess up their events.

Here are the events (both in randomevents.txt)

event = {
id = 24505
random = no
trigger = {
NOT = { local_flag = { name = SLAVERY_FLAG_SET value = 1 } }
}

name = ""
desc = ""
style = 0

date = { day = 2 month = january year = 1836 }
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1920 }

action_a = {
command = { type = local_setflag which = SLAVERY_REMOVED value = 0 }
command = { type = local_setflag which = SLAVERY_FLAG_SET value = 1 }
}
}

event = {
id = 24506
random = no
trigger = {
NOT = { local_setflag = { name = SLAVERY_REMOVED value = 1 } }
constitution = { type = democracy }
reform = { type = voting_rights level = suffrage }
slavery = yes
}

name = "Slaves are released"
desc = "Due to our Goverment Policies, all slaves are released to be Free"
style = 0

date = { day = 2 month = january year = 1836 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1920 }

action_a = {
name = "Freedom" # Free them all
command = { type = convert_pop_type which = slaves value = labourers }
}
}

I'm pretty sure this will be moot once 1.02 is released, since I saw in there a bugfix for this very issue, but, doing this is fun, it's a learning experience, and i'm too durn impatient.

Nicholi