Reactivation times for Officers

[bestmajor]

as there were new dates added for officers and DH seems to aim for longer time frames, let me suggest new values for the Leader CSVs:

currently you have these values:

Name;ID;Country;Rank 3 Year;Rank 2 Year;Rank 1 Year;Rank 0 Year;Ideal Rank;Max Skill;Traits;Skill;Experience;Loyalty;Type;Picture;Start Year;End Year;Retirement Year;x

but some (actually, a lot) officers retired and came back when WW2 broke out, so i would suggest to add these values:

Name;ID;Country;Rank 3 Year;Rank 2 Year;Rank 1 Year;Rank 0 Year;Ideal Rank;Max Skill;Traits;Skill;Experience;Loyalty;Type;Picture;Start Year;End Year;Retirement Year;Reactivation Start;Reactivation Endx

so the officer will be dormant with his end year. when the nation is at war he will come back, if the war is in the given time frame (Reactivation Start = Retirement Year), and he retires if the Reactivation End = Year when he definately retired is met.


there are very many historical examples in very many countries for that, eg Hammerstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord . for starters adding those dates with the dates 1998 and 1999 would be cool enough and modders could do the rest.





just search for "recalled" at generals.dk

https://www.google.de/search?q=site...g&biw=1600&bih=732&sei=PvtMUd_DIMTIswbB5oGgCA


best would be if the officer has no Old Guard trait on 1st retirement, just when he is recalled he gets this trait

 

[Limith]

This can be done via event and moving the retirement year to when the person died.

 

[bestmajor]

well, yes i know that. its just these are dozens if not hundreds of people..

 

[MartinBG]

I don't think this is practical to have. It's about one year after we introduced those extra years columns and only few countries leaders/ministers/TTs have been updated to use these in DH Full. Most mods just ignore those columns.

 

[bestmajor]

well, to bad. this is actually something really cool in DH, a shame that this is not used.

 

[Limith]

I don't think this is practical to have. It's about one year after we introduced those extra years columns and only few countries leaders/ministers/TTs have been updated to use these in DH Full. Most mods just ignore those columns.

I use them.

But yes, I agree with this post, I don't think it will be used widely, and there are existing solutions.

 

[benden]

I fully support Bestmajor's idea. France for example reactivated a few hundreds generals in 1939, only ending their reactivation after her defeat in 1940...
And yes the retirement date is still a cool idea, and I think our friend Bestmajor here, having done extensive research for his leaders/ministers packs, will surely use it the day he'll decide to convert them for use with DH...

 

[uwmad]

Could I suggest that a specific date is too historically dependent? If France was invaded in the 30s, those generals would still have been reactivated. Think of AAR.

Couldn't a simple yes or no conditional check be used? If yes active, if no retired?

I think this might make more sense. While it could be done using years, like is it after 39, i think there are cooler options. Even a simple check of is this country at war? Is it at war with country X? Does the country have belligerence over N? Has event Y fired (Z days ago?)? This seems more useful to me at least. I think it could useful for a lot things which mods handle with events. I'm specifically thinking about the fallout mod. Or maybe Nat China with all the factions.