Big Trouble in Little Baktria

[Daelomin]

Thanks so much to the EB Team for this amazing release! I got hooked long ago on the original EB and have been waiting with baited breath for YEARS for EB2 to come out. I was a little lax on checking in for the last year and a bit though so much to my great elation, when I checked a week ago the first release was here! Amazing!

My favourite faction to play, by far, is Baktria. Always has been... I just love the blend of western Hellenism with eastern cultures and influences (plus elephants)! However, I've played enough now that I think I've recognized some sort of scripting errors with the Baktrian faction.

First off, as reported previously, the 3000 minai annual tribute to Arche Seleukeia only seems to properly fire on the first turn. You get a big hit to your treasury and it even shows up as "-3000" in the Diplomacy/Tributes section of the financial frame. Every time the alert from the Basileus comes after that, though, when you accept it doesn't look like the cash is being deducted.

The second one is, i think, a new bug because I didn't see it reported anywhere. It's along similar lines though. I restarted my Baktria game after about 80 turns to try a different strategy, and rather than appease AS as long as possible I decided to go for them immediately, and took Alexandreia-Areia and Prophthasia from them within the first 20 turns. Much to my surprise, however, after a couple more turns I received a message saying that the Basileus was willing to forgive and forget (nice touch!).

I thought to myself, damn that'd be awesome to get out of this war with AS right now! I have two rich territories that I wouldn't have had otherwise and now I can concentrate on Taksashila and Saka Rauka without having to worry about the AS front! Sweet!

I accepted the offer of forgiveness and immediately a notification came up that relations with AS had improved to Very Good. Awesome!

However, I noticed that it didn't affect a Ceasefire... we were technically still at war. Which appeared to mess things up, because as soon as I ended that turn relations went back down to Very Poor. It just so happened that this turn was also a multiple of 4 so I ALSO received the message that tribute was due, which I accepted, but again for some reason it didn't take! Next turn it said I hadn't paid the turn before, so now I owed triple the usual (so 9000 minai) which I accepted, and this time IT DID take the 9000 out of my treasury, but then acted as if I hadn't and I got the message that the Basileus was done with me and we were back at war (even though we technically were still at war since the "forgiveness".

I LOVE the idea of these scripted events and can't wait for them to be working as they're supposed to, but as they are right now they appear to be pretty broken. I wish I knew scripting so I could look to help with a fix myself. Still, I'm having great fun and can't wait for future updates and patches.

Keep up the excellent work, EBTeam!!

[DeathFinger]

Thanks for your feedback

The Baktrian faction scripts are still under test because those events aren't easy to implant correctly and to balance. You pointed right bugs: they won't be there next time