In Nomine - Sneakpeak #5 - 30th of April 2008

[Johan]

Another week of development has gone on In Nomine, and we have time for another sneakpeak.

In Nomine introduces a new concept called decisions. You can think of decisions as "Events at Will", where as soon as all triggers are satisfied, you are able to do a certain decision. These include forming specific countries, introducing reforms, etc.. There are 3 types of decisions, for province, country and religion. There are alerts that tell you when you can enact your decisions.

Here we see the a list of possible national decisions for Russia, where founding a Russian Patriarchate is among their historical country specific decision.

Here is an example of how decisions are scripted, with the decision shown in the screenshot above. Only those with all potential true will be shown in the interface for that country.

	establish_russian_patriarchate = {
		potential = {
			tag = RUS
			NOT = { has_country_modifier = russian_patriarchate }
			religion = orthodox
		}
		allow = {
			war = no
			NOT = { 151 = { owned_by = BYZ } }
			prestige = 0.2
			innovative_narrowminded = 2
		}
		effect = {
			add_country_modifier = {
				name = "russian_patriarchate"
				duration = -1
			}		}
		ai_will_do = {
			factor = 1
		}
	}

Decisions together with historical missions guide the player and AI, and here is an example of an Ottoman mission that is rather likely to get at the start.

Of course, negotiating with Rebels is in again, and now have restrictions of when its possible to give in to their demands.

And since maps are cool...

This is what happens when you hit F12 in the game.. (saved in the screenshots folder.) (From a beta multiplayer campaign, about 50 years in).

Shift-F12 just saves player nations and their vassals.

 

[Johan]

Some questions; how do you differentiate between the three types of decisions? Are they all on that page? It seems to me that if you have a large empire in which every province is eligible for a decision that listing all odf them there would cause alot of clutter.
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3 separate interfaces.. at country, at religion and at each province.