Casualty Healing/Recovery rates...

[gamerdude873]

Hi

I was wondering if there was anything I could do to to modify the rate at which casualties recover. I'm sick of having a bunch of guys dieing and having only a handful get better. I know with doctors and stuff you can boost that rate, but i want to increase the basic rate. Is this possible? Or is it hard coded in the AI?

(BTW I play Europa Barbarorum, and my RTW vanilla version is 1.5 becuase of that. I don't have Barbarian Invasion, if any of that is important.)

Plz respond and ty

[Makanyane]

Sorry I'm pretty sure that's hard coded, so all you could do is adjust leaders traits / ancillaries, so you have more characters with a positive BattleSurgery effect.

Welcome to the forum

[Thor the Bassist]

It may be possible with scripting though I dont know how to script at all?

[Horseman]

You could always add a trait (hidden maybe) that gives a boast and make it 100% chance at birth so that all family members get it.

This of course wont help captain led armies

[gamerdude873]

Most of my armies aren't lead by captains anyways. How would you add a trait like that? I have experience modding, but it's not extensive and i've never personally modded RTW.

[HouseOfHam]

You can't do it with scripting - the replenish_units command needs a general's name as a parameter.

A trait with a high Effect BattleSurgery value seems like the easiest solution. For example, something like this...

In export_descr_character_traits, add:

Trait HealingTouch
	Characters family

	Level HealingTouchLevel1
		Description HealingTouch1_desc
		EffectsDescription HealingTouch1_effects_desc
		Threshold 1

		Effect BattleSurgery 50

	Level HealingTouchLevel2
		Description HealingTouch2_desc
		EffectsDescription HealingTouch2_effects_desc
		Threshold 5

		Effect BattleSurgery 60

	Level HealingTouchLevel3
		Description HealingTouch3_desc
		EffectsDescription HealingTouch3_effects_desc
		Threshold 10

		Effect BattleSurgery 70

Then, in the triggers section, add (fixed):

Trigger HealingTouchTrigger
    WhenToTest PostBattle

    Condition isGeneral
            and CharacterIsLocal
            and WonBattle
            
    Affects HealingTouch 1 Chance 100

In text\export_VnVs.txt, add (fixed):

{HealingTouch1}Healing Touch 1
{HealingTouch1_desc}	Healing Touch, level 1
{HealingTouch1_effects_desc}	Heals 50% of casualties
{HealingTouch1}Healing Touch 2
{HealingTouch2_desc}	Healing Touch, level 2
{HealingTouch2_effects_desc}	Heals 60% of casualties
{HealingTouch1}Healing Touch 3
{HealingTouch3_desc}	Healing Touch, level 3
{HealingTouch3_effects_desc}	Heals 70% of casualties

Sorry, I always have a ton of bugs when I write code off the top of my head, without checking syntax :)

[Aradan]

On a releated note, there seems to be a significant difference depending on whether the casualties were a result of missile fire or melee. Anybody has solid data on that?

[HouseOfHam]

No solid data, just observations. In general, it seems like wounds inflicted by missile weapons are easier to heal. It might have something to do with the amount of damage produced by the attack. Actually, that makes sense, since most units armed with missile weapons have lower damage.

[Aradan]

Not sure, even against peasants, wounds will not heal easily, while they do against "elite" archers. Where's a CA Dev when you need one...

[gamerdude873]

Thanks for the help i've been a little busy the past few days... so i'll try it out now

[gamerdude873]

BTW what does "CharacterIsLocal" trigger do? THe rest is self explanantory but does this mean that he has to be in your territory?

[HouseOfHam]

BTW what does "CharacterIsLocal" trigger do? THe rest is self explanantory but does this mean that he has to be in your territory?

Belongs to the faction controlled by the player - the same also applies to all other conditions containing the word Local

[gamerdude873]

Ahhh that helps.

Oh and I tried to modify the Character trait, and now the game crashes when i load the save. And i loaded multiple saved games, so i know it's not just my game. I'll keep playin with it, but are there any ideas in the meantime about the topic or better yet, how to fix the crash?

[gamerdude873]

Wait do i need to use a special editor for this, cause i just cut an pasted. I don't have a ton of experience with this stuff so bear with me...

If i do then that might explain the crash.