Thanks for the hint. I will go this way and see what I can get.
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It's not the most elegant solution, just a work-around, but you could have two versions of the building, one with the requires_pop flag true, one with it false. Then have an event checking for the tile with the building on it, whether it's popped. If it isn't, switch the building to the one with requires_pop false, if it is, switch it to the version with requires_pop true.
It won't force the AI to pop the tile but will ensure the building is always active and won't make the pop unemployed if there's one on it.
EDIT - And if you make the building collect energy/minerals/food, and/or produce science, the AI will be more keen to pop it. The AI especially likes science output.
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Is there any way to check in a event if a empire has more or less of X resource (specifically say energy and minerals) on an event?, so I can make thinks like "if you have 20 energy or less your empire recive a event of "economic crisis" or something like that.
Does anybody know how to program an event or something that changes an empire's ethics to those of another one?
I am trying to add an observation post mission to influence the ethics of the primitive civilization. Given that the actual changes caused by the observation missions are implemented by hidden events happening from the pre-FTL state's perspective, and then an event is triggered for the observer to be notified. The easiest way I can think of to make this mission is by having it trigger an event (either immediately or over time) which will change the pre-FTL state's governing ethos, which should not matter given that they do not interact with anyone anyway, and then add a modifier to either the country or planet that greatly lowers ethics divergence. However, I do not know if there is a way to have the game recognize the observer's ethics as the one that the pre-FTL ethics need to change to, or if I should just create separate hidden events for each possible combination?
I am trying to add an observation post mission to influence the ethics of the primitive civilization. Given that the actual changes caused by the observation missions are implemented by hidden events happening from the pre-FTL state's perspective, and then an event is triggered for the observer to be notified. The easiest way I can think of to make this mission is by having it trigger an event (either immediately or over time) which will change the pre-FTL state's governing ethos, which should not matter given that they do not interact with anyone anyway, and then add a modifier to either the country or planet that greatly lowers ethics divergence. However, I do not know if there is a way to have the game recognize the observer's ethics as the one that the pre-FTL ethics need to change to, or if I should just create separate hidden events for each possible combination?
You can change both the ethics of a country, and/or the ethics of individual pops or all pops. As for getting the ethics of the observation post owning country, that's pretty straight-forward.
Dissect the events from Gods and Guardians. You'll also find a few examples in vanilla observation events. Structurally, you'll just want a cluster of if statements. Pseudo-code:
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
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Dissect the events from Gods and Guardians. You'll also find a few examples in vanilla observation events. Structurally, you'll just want a cluster of if statements. Pseudo-code:
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
if observing country ethics is x, remove ethic x from observed country, add ethic y to observed country
...
In the pages for types of subjects, one of the possible lines you can add is "can_switch_to". It is used in the tributary file, and lists that tributaries can switch to vassals or protectorates.
If I add a new type of subject empire, are there any other files that I need to edit to make a "can_switch_to" work in it. For example, if I call the new subject type "Client State" that vassals and protectorates can be converted into, do I need to add a new diplomatic interaction or something to make that switch work?
Also, how do I edit the displays in the Contacts window and the diplomacy window? If I can add a new subject type, I would like to have it appear with its own icon in both of those windows to make it easier to keep track of.
If I add a new type of subject empire, are there any other files that I need to edit to make a "can_switch_to" work in it. For example, if I call the new subject type "Client State" that vassals and protectorates can be converted into, do I need to add a new diplomatic interaction or something to make that switch work?
Also, how do I edit the displays in the Contacts window and the diplomacy window? If I can add a new subject type, I would like to have it appear with its own icon in both of those windows to make it easier to keep track of.
How exactly do you use 01_INSULT_PROPOSE_HUMAN insults? Is it linked somewhere else or if i just make an insult for my own species in the localization would that work?
If you're going to add the same set of techs for a lot of new countries then you can at least help yourself to do it as a scripted effect. That way you'll also only need to update everything in a single place later on.
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Nice to see you again.
I have some questions:
1) I was surprised to find that in the game it is possible to create a dynamic modifier
damage_vs_country_type_fallen_empire_mult
Can I create other modifiers or just
damage_vs_country_type_typename_mult?
2) Looks like bug (game event, but only one trait)
Code:
create_leader = {
type = admiral
species = owner_main_species
name = random
skill = 0
traits = {
trait = random_trait
trait = random_trait
}
}3) Can i set vanilla orders (survey_planet_order etc) to fleet?
4) Can i make condition by fleet_stance (evasive etc)?
5) Where can I read how to do prescripted galaxy (searched on the wiki and not found)?
Try to give orders which are similar to this: http://www.stellariswiki.com/Fleet_modding. However, i'm not sure, that they will work.
I'm making quite a huge mod at the moment.. and, all tho I'm learning a lot every day, i have one problem i cannot connect to it's cause.
The problem is this:
My mod among other features has unique empire ethic and unique government that goes with it. It is all working as intended except for one thing;
Every new game i start has only single pop having my original ethic (and that's the pop sitting on the planet administration tile on my home planet)
All other pops on the planet start the game without that ethic. Also all growing pops are born without that ethic. (all the pops still have any secondary
( original Stellaris ) ethics player has picked during empire creation, and those work normally. This happens even when player's empire has ethics divergence
in huge negative values.
Given enough time while having ethics divergence in negative value, the pops DO get "infected" with my custom ethic. It's just that it is a ridiculously slow process.
In the end let's just mention that same thing happens even if i delete any and all bonuses and/or drawbacks from the custom ethic mentioned before.
Thanks in advance!
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EDIT: i found the cause (partially);
Apperently, this bug happens only when i use maps i generated with Galaxy Generator (and i play only on those maps, tbh). On normal, randomly generated Stellaris maps, my pops have their ethos as i intended them to have.
Does someone have an idea of what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
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The problem is this:
My mod among other features has unique empire ethic and unique government that goes with it. It is all working as intended except for one thing;
Every new game i start has only single pop having my original ethic (and that's the pop sitting on the planet administration tile on my home planet)
All other pops on the planet start the game without that ethic. Also all growing pops are born without that ethic. (all the pops still have any secondary
( original Stellaris ) ethics player has picked during empire creation, and those work normally. This happens even when player's empire has ethics divergence
in huge negative values.
Given enough time while having ethics divergence in negative value, the pops DO get "infected" with my custom ethic. It's just that it is a ridiculously slow process.
In the end let's just mention that same thing happens even if i delete any and all bonuses and/or drawbacks from the custom ethic mentioned before.
Thanks in advance!
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EDIT: i found the cause (partially);
Apperently, this bug happens only when i use maps i generated with Galaxy Generator (and i play only on those maps, tbh). On normal, randomly generated Stellaris maps, my pops have their ethos as i intended them to have.
Does someone have an idea of what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
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1: There are some dynamic modifiers depending on the different types of game objects in the databases. But with that said it's still quite strict with what type of modifiers they are. So in this case you can only create damage_vs_country_type_<typename>_mult as seen used once by the original game to create damage_vs_country_type_fallen_empire_mult. There are some other dynamic modifiers but they work in the same kind of way with a defined behavior and a dynamic target that depends on the objects created by other game files.
2: Yes, I saw that previously. It's a really inflexible thing just being able to assign 1 random trait at leader creation but you can somewhat work around it in the meantime if you really need a second or third trait on the leader.
5: I haven't really gotten into this myself yet being spread a bit thin by four projects but hopefully someone else in the community will have more experience on this. I've seen a really ingenious community made tool flying around to create custom galaxies as well.
I'm sorry if i sound silly or if this is a stupid question but i need some help with this. I've done modding before but I would only make assets (3d models and textures mainly) based off existing code from others. What i am trying to do is create a more in depth personality mod. Part of this mod is to make it so Personalities add modifiers. so my first question is if a personality adds, say. a 20% research buff where do i put that line? do i put it in the personality file or a triggered action or where? a second part of this is that i want to have alliances with certain personalities add effects for example:
#Master Scientists
<any_country> = {
has_ai_personality = {galactic_advancers}
}
<any_country> = {
is_in_federation_with = prev # Checks if country is in a federation with target country
}
modifier = {
all_technology_research_speed = .2
num_tech_alternatives_add = 1
}
I understand this code is not yet complete and improperly formatted but i hope you can see what i am going for. Basically if a country is in a federation with a country that has that personality they get a 20% research buff and an extra tech option
My question on this is how do i trigger this scope and how do i do so in a way that does not cause a lot of lag. there will be 108 personalities in all and i want each to have a unique effect so having them all trigger non stop is probably a bad idea.
Any and all help is appreciated
#Master Scientists
<any_country> = {
has_ai_personality = {galactic_advancers}
}
<any_country> = {
is_in_federation_with = prev # Checks if country is in a federation with target country
}
modifier = {
all_technology_research_speed = .2
num_tech_alternatives_add = 1
}
I understand this code is not yet complete and improperly formatted but i hope you can see what i am going for. Basically if a country is in a federation with a country that has that personality they get a 20% research buff and an extra tech option
My question on this is how do i trigger this scope and how do i do so in a way that does not cause a lot of lag. there will be 108 personalities in all and i want each to have a unique effect so having them all trigger non stop is probably a bad idea.
Any and all help is appreciated
@Divine does the button_effect scoping work correctly now? I remember that after implementation it would not properly resolve the object scope, and as a result could only be properly used to add new empire effects.
Unfortunately no. It required a bit more coding than was originally thought and I haven't had time to look at it properly while being on all 4 projects. But both me and the coders at Stellaris has the ambition to get it working down the line. So hopefully someone gets time to dig into the issue and fix it sooner rather than later. That said however there's no-one looking into it right now.
On the top of my head I think of two non-optimal solutions. The first one is to have an event fire on yearly pulse (in the "common/on_actions/" - folder) where you evaluate the modifiers that should be applied. This has the problem in timing as you might have to wait for quite a while for the modifier to actually take effect.
Another way to do it might be to create a triggered modifier (in the "common/triggered_modifiers/" - folder). I haven't tried adding these to Stellaris yet but there seems to be code support for it. This has the problem with performance since it will verify the triggers excessively.
Ideally you'd like to identify a proper on_action event that would handle the creation of the modifier and then a corresponding on_action event handling the removal (alternatively having an on_action for the yearly pulse to verify that the modifiers and removing obsolete ones with the side-effect that some modifiers might "drag" for a while after they should be gone). I think that for your first example such an on_action might not exist right now but I'll try to add a quick on_join_alliance and on_leave alliance hook to reach you in a future patch.
There might be other more optimal ways to solve the problem that other modders might have experience with.
