the most important questions...ever

[TheLoneTaco]

Hello all...again :^D Few questions for the gurus

1. Does anyone know if the command

control = { province = -2 which = -1 }

will actually work? I want it to check to see if the nation controls its capital. By adding the NOT = { } line I would ideally cause colonial revolts. Is there a better way to do this?

2. Alright, another one. Now that we can specify who is HRE, is it possible to have non-Catholics as voters and emperors? Specifically I would like to have ONLY Orthodox-faithed nations able to be in the Empire.

3. Another one. Can I tell the AI where to colonize WITHOUT using the "continent = " stuff? I made the ROTW all on the American continent, but I want to avoid the random colonization and force the AI to make actual empires.

Thats all for now! Thanks again to everyone for the answers I am sure will be forecoming and for all the help you've collectively been over the past year! I really appreciate it!

-Matt

 

[unmerged(21937)]

1. Should work. Better test it out though.

2. You can choose electors in country.csv, but I don't think you can prevent European catholics from being electable as Emperors though.

3. You can specify regions and areas instead of continents.

 

[TheLoneTaco]

thanks, Byakhiam. quick add-on to #1 - since i want to use random = no would i have to make a million of those events? is there a better way to force that event to fire EVERY time a nation loses its capital?

#2 - can orthodox even get elected at all? if so, can i give them huge hapsburg-esque bonuses, or were those hardcoded?

#3 - very good news :^D i'll try to figure that out later this week

-Matt

 

[unmerged(21937)]

thanks, Byakhiam. quick add-on to #1 - since i want to use random = no would i have to make a million of those events? is there a better way to force that event to fire EVERY time a nation loses its capital?

If you use random = no, you have to make separate event for each time it's supposed to fire AND you'd need to make all except the first check that previous one has fired, so that only one of the many events can fire each time.

#2 - can orthodox even get elected at all? if so, can i give them huge hapsburg-esque bonuses, or were those hardcoded?

Electors are always viable candidates, no matter their religion. Habsburg-esque bonuses are (afaik) hardcoded.

 

[Kasperus]

uhm, as to #1, which as far as I can see is not a command but a trigger, right now the trigger will check if capitol of nation for which the event fires is controlled by some nation and not specifically the nation who owns that capitol province. Triggering as such has no backward compatibility, also even if it is random the -1 can affect every nation other than the one receiving the event. Using -3 instead of -1 would be more logical but afaik such 2-variables triggers don't work either. If you intend to check if a nation controls its own capitol you will have to specify the tag after 'which'.
Also, if that event is not random then it has to be either province or country specific and then 'which = -1' it pointless at all.

And orthodox countries cannot be elected emperor to my knowledge, no matter their elector status. In latest patches the protestant nations can be elected emperor if they are elector ONLY if there are no more catholics. In post 1.08 beta's the Hapsburgs have no longer any significant election bonusss btw, bonuses that were hardcoded.

 

[unmerged(21937)]

uhm, as to #1, which as far as I can see is not a command but a trigger, right now the trigger will check if capitol of nation for which the event fires is controlled by some nation and not specifically the nation who owns that capitol province. Triggering as such has no backward compatibility, also even if it is random the -1 can affect every nation other than the one receiving the event. Using -3 instead of -1 would be more logical but afaik such 2-variables triggers don't work either. If you intend to check if a nation controls its own capitol you will have to specify the tag after 'which'.
Also, if that event is not random then it has to be either province or country specific and then 'which = -1' it pointless at all.

If it would have a country entry, the trigger would be all fine, since "-1" there is "the country which it's firing to", but I'm not too knowledged whether or not non-random events without either country or province work sensibly. So I suggested trying it out at first. It's possible to have non-random event without country or province however, since for example reformation is such event. It would be fine as a random event trigger though.

And orthodox countries cannot be elected emperor to my knowledge, no matter their elector status. In latest patches the protestant nations can be elected emperor if they are elector ONLY if there are no more catholics. In post 1.08 beta's the Hapsburgs have no longer any significant election bonusss btw, bonuses that were hardcoded.

Wrong. 12th june beta changelog says:

- Only catholics in Europe or current electors may become emperor now.

Which doesn't specify any religion requirement to elector. I've personally witnessed protestant Brandenburg becoming emperor, even though catholic Austria still existed. Also I've seen a screenie of pagan Elector becoming emperor around in the forums.

 

[TheLoneTaco]

thanks guys. so in sum...

1. i need to program an event for every nation and then make, say, 20 copies of each event. more a pain in the ass than i would have liked, but doable since it would just be the same event 2,000 times with only minor changes

2. try it and see :^D

3. no problems

sounds good. thanks again

-Matt

 

[TheLoneTaco]

For those of you interested, I got the HRE working with just orthodox electors and emperors. Working like a charm :^D Just go to country.csv and set only the orthodox to electors. badabing badaboom orthodox HRE

-Matt

 

[MattyG]

In regards to #1 ...

the trigger line should actually read:

control = { province = -2 data = -1 }

which - -1 cannot be used.

This kind of a trigger can only check a specific province, although -2 might work because it is to some degree specific. And the data, or country, must be specific. In this case, -1 in not random, it is a reference to the country for whom the event fires.

Havard's site is a good one, but it doesn't include all the places that the randoms work in nor all the places they don't work in.

Untested, my money would be on the

control = { province = -2 data = -1} to not work.

 

[Mettermrck]

I had to read the most important questions ever.

Havard's guides are bibles of event scripting. I swear by them.

 

[TheLoneTaco]

I'm pretty well-versed in Havard's bible, too. Just that for some of the more complicated stuff there is no simple answer :^)

-Matt