Starting the bubonic plague
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Good question actually, been meaning to take a look at that for a while.
(Especially since my history professor, would skin people alive for reffering to it as the bubonic plague
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Have been looking at the event files for a while now, not been able to locate anything, except for the stuff there's located in the disease text documents in common
(Especially since my history professor, would skin people alive for reffering to it as the bubonic plague
)Have been looking at the event files for a while now, not been able to locate anything, except for the stuff there's located in the disease text documents in common
I could be wrong, but as far as I'm aware, you can't. All of the diseases that can be present in a province are just random chances rather than being actual events that can be fired. The bubonic plague is just scripted to only be allowed to trigger between 1300 and 1400.
From disease.txt:
Code:
bubonic_plague = {
contagiousness = 0.8
outbreak_chance = 0.01
effect = {
city_tax_modifier = -0.8
supply_limit = -4
max_attrition = 0.05
}
icon = 4
tooltip = BUBONIC_PLAGUE_INFO
months = 7
trait = has_bubonic_plague
always_get_message = yes
timeperiod = {
start_date = 1300.1.1
end_date = 1400.1.1
one_only = yes
}
}
The problem with the black plague is that it has a very low chance of happening. So only very in few games you are actually going to see it. But once it starts, however, its a whole different story...
When the event started in one of my games, it spread all the way to Poland and I actually sent my Councillor to be the ward of my only heir, all the way to Venice to avoid her dying of the plague, while I raised personal retinues to run away from the plague with my most important courtiers.
had it happen a few times, it's referred to as the dread plague if I remember it right.
I've heard stories about how it can really send the game into chaos but i have never had it trigger.
Do diseases have any other consequences asides from killing characters? Do they affect the provinces and/or armies as well?
Heh. When I had the plague in one of my games, it spawned in Flanders, killed the lord of Flanders, then vanished from the face of the earth. It was disappointingly anti-climatic.
this actually does bring up something that sunset invasion might allow particularly for modders to better repersent IMO.
A disease being present in a province will reduce taxes and the supply limit of the province.
Looking at the event posted further above, it affects city tax quite heavily, along with supply limit, but other than that, I can't see much of a change, which is a shame.
I never saw it but the health penalty is -7, so I guess it kills everyone instantly in one iteration of the game (IIRC it's 4 days), so ... civil wars ^^
Well yes, that's the one you get when a character gets it Have never had it fire for me yet, I really gotta look into how it plays out, and see if I wanna mod it a bit
Have never had it fire for me yet, I really gotta look into how it plays out, and see if I wanna mod it a bit How do you tell if the plague is even present? I only spotted it in my game because I noticed that someone outside my court had died of "the dread plague". I'd really like to see the plague have a bigger impact on the game, since it was one of the most significant events of the time period.
There is an event that triggers telling you about it, if it starts in your realm. I have seen it 3 times now and on one of those 3 occasions it spread like wild fired accross western Europe and killed many people causing succession issues in all of my neighbours.
Wow.
Too bad there isn't a hygiene tech - My kingdom is a cesspool of disease most of the time even without the plague:
[video=youtube;grbSQ6O6kbs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs[/video]
With all these generals from retinues I could use a plague. Any way to get it going?