Taiping Question

[heliostellar]

Playing as China and I've played two games now where the event "Hong Xiuquan Inaugurates the Taiping Kingdom" (id 12513) fires but Taiping doesn't actually spawn. What's up with that? Is this event broken some how? I'm looking at the event files and everything looks to be in order...

 

[unmerged(131989)]

That seems strange. Usually it does get released. Did it exist before the event, at all?

 

[heliostellar]

No, but I was poking about the event file. It looks like there's an event for the independence of Taiping and then there's a series of events that secedes provinces to it. I don't think I was giving the game much more time after the event fired before expecting to see the new country form. Does it take time for it to form, similar to CSA?

I guess I was expecting that at least one province would secede immediately... to form DAI. That's how it works with CSA where South Carolina leaves as soon as the CSA event fires and then is joined by the rest of the South over a few months.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

It should've just formed in that event which you mentioned (with the line: "type = independence which = DAI..."). It usually does, and the scripting is fine, so I have no idea why it doesn't, unless it already formed and was annexed without a reload, or if you have edited the events somehow to conflict with it in some way?

 

[heliostellar]

No, negative to both. Didn't change any of the events yet in regards to our other discussion about China winning the Opium War. They definitely were not annexing by me and certainly not by anyone else because my borders are intact...

It's weird because this happened two games in a row, but I'll try one more time. I was thinking that by losing the Opium War it would spice up a China game until I can pull together my winning the Opium War event is done. It just becomes a flood of nation-wide revolting and I can't get the Arrow Incident to trigger anyway without DAI...

 

[unmerged(131989)]

It is very weird, and I am not sure why this is happening. Are you sure you're playing the VIP campaign and not the vanilla one?