Triggering - beyond traits and ancillaries

**Dol Guldur** · 07-25-2005, 19:39

Pity,

Have you got I_SettlementOwner [settlement name] = [faction name]

to work? Does this work for your own faction as well as AI ones?

I have not got it to work from my own faction. What does the I stand for anyway? Seems ot have something to do with the factions that are Ai controlled.

**Epistolary Richard** · 07-25-2005, 19:49

That works, it's a conditional which returns true when the settlement specified is controlled by the specified faction.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-25-2005, 20:23

It seems to be a conditional that returns true whatever faction name or settlement you stick in it! :(

I even put "and not" and it still returned true.

Have you an example of its coding in a trigger block?

**Epistolary Richard** · 07-25-2005, 21:05

Not in a trigger block, no. In the prologue campaign script though:

Code:

	while I_SettlementOwner Tarquinii = greek_cities
	end_while

Simetrical and Malrubius are two people who know a lot about triggers for traits, hopefully one of them will share their experience.

**Malrubius** · 07-28-2005, 18:55

It seemed to work properly for me:

I used

Code:

and not I_SettlementOwner XXX = greek_cities

Where XXX was a settlement not owned by the greeks, and that line returned True.

and I used

Code:

and I_SettlementOwner XXX = greek_cities

With XXX not owned by the greeks and it returned False.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-28-2005, 21:58

I am not getting that result. In your examples above, what happens when you are playing as the greek_cities?

EDIT: What I am trying to achieve (among other things and general research) is for a general who takes a certain city to be given a unique ancillary. Of course, I want the same to happen if the AI takes the city instead (given that it is not excluded from obtaining that ancillary).

How does assignation of ancillaries work anyway? Which general is chosen? What happens if you don't have isGeneral?

**Malrubius** · 07-28-2005, 23:59

I was playing the greek_cities in that example.

IsGeneral is the one who's in charge of the army, the way I understand it. He'll get all the traits from battles, etc.

This is how I'd do it:

edct:

Code:

Trigger GeneralCapturesRome
    WhenToTest GeneralCaptureSettlement

    Condition SettlementName Rome

    Affects GiveGeneralTrait  1  Chance  100

eda:

Code:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger trigger_someancillary
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition EndedInSettlement
          and SettlementName Rome
          and IsGeneral

    AcquireAncillary someancillary chance  100

This will give a trait to the general who captures Rome, and give the ancillary to any general who ends his turn in Rome. You could add

Code: