What is this "has_overlords_ruler" line in the subjects file? and why is it always set to "no" on all of them? and what does it actually so?

[CaptinObvious]

Was digging around in the files to balance the game to my liking, and while messing with subjects, I found this line on all of them:

has_overlords_ruler

and it was always set to

= no

what does it actually do? if I set it to yes will it work? will it cause a crash? will it collapse my PC into a black hole?

and if it is set to no everywhere then what's the point behind it? and what was the original intent? and why was it scraped?

 

[KingEmperor]

I think it's for subjects like the personal unions of EU4, where both overlord and subject have the same leader.
As to why it exists if it's not used, maybe for modding?

 

[Trin Tragula]

It’s for a subject type that has the same character as ruler as it’s overlord.
This is not something we have wanted for any of our subject types now or in the past but it was at one point on a list of things we thought about.

Modders could in theory make a subject type with this turned on but I would not make any promises about how well it works. Since we don’t actually have any such subject types in the game, and never tried adding any, there’s no telling how well it actually works

 

[CaptinObvious]

It’s for a subject type that has the same character as ruler as it’s overlord.
This is not something we have wanted for any of our subject types now or in the past but it was at one point on a list of things we thought about.

Modders could in theory make a subject type with this turned on but I would not make any promises about how well it works. Since we don’t actually have any such subject types in the game, and never tried adding any, there’s no telling how well it actually works

dodged a bullet then.

so besides technically sharing the same character, there is nothing going on?

 

[Álvaro Núñez de Lara]

dodged a bullet then.

so besides technically sharing the same character, there is nothing going on?

Well its a tool to make a new subject type. In theory you could mod EU4s Personal Unions.