Modding - Quick questions

[rickinator9]

Is there any way to make flags show up? We have them named after the title, but the title does not use the flag like it should.

 

[RedRooster81]

Two big questions:

(1) I'm trying to simulate the Investiture Controversy and began playing around with <autocephaly = yes> under the Catholic religion. Investiture is of course overridden, which isn't too much of a problem, for the purposes of my testing. But only some of the Catholic kingdoms got autocephalant (is that the right term in English?) religious heads. Most remained under Rome, and I'm not sure what the variables are. The HRE has his own religious head, and Bohemia follows the emperor's, but most of the HRE does not. I thought that having free investiture law was the variable, but France and Castille do for example and they still follow Rome.

Of the Iberian kingdoms, only Galicia has its own head of religion. So weird. I'll try turning off investiture and see if that clears it up.

My goal here is a more complicated competition between the Pope and the larger kingdoms over investiture. AI Dukes will tend towards papal investiture, and I imagine there could be a faction for this (papal vs. imperial faction). If the matter comes to an ugly head, there could be three outcomes: (a) papal supremacy; (b) imperial/royal supremacy; or (c) compromise--e.g., the Concordat of Worms option. In the aftermath, some kingdoms, duchies, and counties could put themselves under papal suzerainity, and to mess with them further would be at one's own peril. That was the outcome for pretty much all of Italy (north and south), as well as England and the Iberian kingdoms in the twelfth century.

(2) Limiting the forces available to high-tier rulers. In 1066, France has a manpower (in EU-terms) of about 36k. If you've been on the receiving end of a French war to press a claim, you know what I mean. The HRE even more, collecting men from all over Saxony, High Germany, Italy, and Burgundy for his wars.

Historically, the HRE had access to a lot of manpower from his own demesne lands and those from his direct vassals in his own major-title kingdom. Other vassals can show their support, but they should not be expected to. Same goes for France or any other large kingdom.

I'd suggest doing this through crown laws. But: What role should retinues have? In the case of England in the time of the Angevins, mercenaries became increasingly in vogue for the wars in France, Ireland, and Scotland, instead of levies. How would you adjust crown and demesne laws to allow for smaller levies but add to the size of the retinues available to the monarch? Can you do something like <-60% castle levies> and <+100% retinues>?

 

[zeress]

ATM I have an event that fires for a specific character like so:

character_event = { id = 1000182067 days = 730 }

How would I adapt this to instead fire for the owner of a specific province, since this would cause problems if the character in question died before the event fired.

 

[Dhop84]

With the
if = {
limit = { religion = ??? }
add_trait = ???
Ive seen used as an effect in an option for a event . Can you change the add trait to a code for an narrative event ? So i could have if catholic they will get x narrative event then if orthodox you get xx narrative event and so on ?

 

[Nivve]

With the
if = {
limit = { religion = ??? }
add_trait = ???
Ive seen used as an effect in an option for a event . Can you change the add trait to a code for an narrative event ? So i could have if catholic they will get x narrative event then if orthodox you get xx narrative event and so on ?

I don't see why not

IF = {
      limit = {
              ROOT = {
                         religion = orthodox
              }
      }
      ROOT = { narrative_event = { id = xxx } }
}
IF = {
      limit = {
              ROOT = {
                         religion = catholic
              }
      }
      ROOT = { narrative_event = { id = xxx2 } }
}

 

[Dhop84]

I don't see why not

IF = {
      limit = {
              ROOT = {
                         religion = orthodox
              }
      }
      ROOT = { narrative_event = { id = xxx } }
}
IF = {
      limit = {
              ROOT = {
                         religion = catholic
              }
      }
      ROOT = { narrative_event = { id = xxx2 } }
}

Thanks pal . I must say you do your utmost to answer any questions on here and i for one am really grateful thanks Nivve

 

[zhivago6]

Every time I load my mod after I change landed_titles.txt, it crashes when loading the map. After the first time though it works fine. Is this somewhat normal or am I missing something that is it going to cause me problems down the road?

 

[Septemvile]

This is kind of babby's first mod sort of question. But should you always delete the savegame and start a new file whenever a mod is updated? It seems counter-intuitive when you're only adding like one decision.

 

[Carbon]

Anyone know how to make it so that your most powerful vassals get a certain trait?

 

[Dhop84]

Can you have a have a landless title as a theocracy using is_theocracy = yes ?

 

[Nivve]

This is kind of babby's first mod sort of question. But should you always delete the savegame and start a new file whenever a mod is updated? It seems counter-intuitive when you're only adding like one decision.

Nope. It would be a b**** to debug if this wasn't the case.
Especially events/decisions, they are almost never gamebreaking (except when they trigger for a removed empire or something similar).

Added traits, changed map, changed titles etc. are the more gamebreaking changes. But definitely not every change is save game incompatible.

Anyone know how to make it so that your most powerful vassals get a certain trait?

You can select on actual size, but I am not sure whether you can select on relative size. Relative commands are not the strong point of CK2.
Try to work with conditions like 'num_of_count_titles', or even better 'num_of_settlements'. These kind of conditions can select the somewhat better placed characters in the realm.

 

[unmerged(7340)]

Just formed my Francian Empire and want to delegate to Kings. Andalusia is a problem because I'm not an Arab and don't want to mess about with my culture. I've seen here that you need to edit landed_titles in the common folder to remove the allow = {culture_group = arabic }. Done that, launched the CKII game and started a new game. No joy; there's still a requirement for Arabic culture group. Any ideas?

That's probably tangential to the main point though, as I really need it to work with my current save. Had a look in there but there's nothing obvious that I could see that would limit me to Arabic. Is there something hidden in the numbers, or will it all come together if I can get the landed_titles working?

 

[Darkgamma]

Just formed my Francian Empire and want to delegate to Kings. Andalusia is a problem because I'm not an Arab and don't want to play with my culture. I've seen here that you need to edit landed_titles in the common folder to remove the allow = {culture_group = arabic }. Done that, launched the CKII game and started a new game. No joy; there's still a requirement for Arabic culture group. Any ideas?

That's probably tangential to the main point though, as I really need it to work with my current save. Had a look in there but there's nothing obvious that I could see that would limit me to Arabic. Is there something hidden in the numbers, or will it all come together if I can get the landed_titles working?

Did you save the file

 

[Carbon]

You can select on actual size, but I am not sure whether you can select on relative size. Relative commands are not the strong point of CK2.
Try to work with conditions like 'num_of_count_titles', or even better 'num_of_settlements'. These kind of conditions can select the somewhat better placed characters in the realm.

I'll try that.
What I did try was

num_of_king_titles = 1
OR = { num_of_extra_landed_titles = 4 }

But for whatever reason, this crashed my game during the set-up loading screen. What does "num_extra_landed_titles" even do? I assumed it was a condition for the number of titles excluding the primary, but I don't know for certain.

Will try to play around with the "num_of_settlements" condition (baronies?).

 

[unmerged(7340)]

Did you save the file

Yep. Renamed it landed_titlesOLD. It's not loading that instead/as well, is it?

EDIT. Good spot, that was it! Even works with the save. Cheers!

 

[JonStryker]

Yep. Renamed it landed_titlesOLD. It's not loading that instead/as well, is it?

Why did you do that? You now most likely have to landed_title-files in that folder that are loaded both. Only bad stuff can result from that

 

[Nivve]

I'll try that.
What I did try was

But for whatever reason, this crashed my game during the set-up loading screen. What does "num_extra_landed_titles" even do? I assumed it was a condition for the number of titles excluding the primary, but I don't know for certain.

Will try to play around with the "num_of_settlements" condition (baronies?).

I have never used the command of the extra titles, you would indeed expect it to work like that. It can simply work in a different way, so you have to write it down differently.
The num of settlements is afaik the total number of settlements (baronies, cities and temples) in the demesne. However again I am not sure as I have not used them. You should try to locate them in the vanilla files (open the files and look for the command), so you know for sure you're using the correct way to code it.
Here are all the conditions you could use, in case you haven't got the link already.

 

[Viden]

Do you know how can I make Spanish titles dinamic? I want to play as Cordoba and my holdings use their Arabian names (at least while I remain in a North African culture or Andalusian), but I don not know how can I make that.

 

[BuzzR34]

Hello,

I am new with the modding part :huh: of the game, so i could use some help from you guys.
I am trying to understand this syntax from landed_titles.txt:

Code:
k_hungary = {
color={ 187 70 70 }
color2={ 255 255 255 }

capital = 444 # Esztergom

avar = Avar

allow = {
OR = {
culture_group = magyar
culture = avar
AND = {
FROM = { # FROM = this title
any_previous_holder = {
always = yes # The title has existed before
}
}
any_realm_province = {
culture_group = magyar
}
}
}
}

Does this code "say" :
allow if culture = hungarian or culture = avar , AND all provinces in the kingdom have culture = hungarian starting with the last holder ?!?!
If i am of any other culture or there is a province with different culture , i will not be able to have the kingdom ?

Thank you.

 

[Azarias59]

Does the 'ANY_SPOUSE" scope apply to dead spouses as well?