advance_advice_thread

[Stuie]

There have been very few major mods released that have had an integrated background script to date (I think TFT, I'm not sure of any others) and that I think was an optional four turn addition.

TFT is using click-on-a-settlement to make the advisor appear. So far I haven't heard any complaints, and most of the time a player will click on a settlement in the natural course of events when they start/continue a game. Even if they forget the first turn they continue a game, clicking on one the next turn is good enough for starting the four-turns-per-year portion of the script. The rest of the script's functions are not as time sensitive.

So this is our Crassus/Gauls campaign code from the EDA (note that only brutii, scipii, julii, gauls and eventually parthia are playable in TFT, and thus the not I_LocalFaction conditions - those factions have their own triggers as the start date differs for their campaigns):

;------------------------------------------ TFT_Campaign		
AdviceThread TFT_Licinii_Campaign_Thread		
	GameArea Campaign	

	Item TFT_Campaign_Text_01	
		Uninhibitable
		Verbosity  0 
		Threshold  1  
		Attitude Normal
		Presentation Default
		Title TFT_Campaign_Text_01_Title
     	Script scripts\show_me\Crassus_TFT_Campaign.txt	
		Text TFT_Campaign_Text_01_Text1


;------------------------------------------ TFT Campaign

Trigger 2300a_TFT_Campaign_Thread_Trigger
    WhenToTest SettlementSelected

    Condition not I_LocalFaction romans_julii
          and not I_LocalFaction romans_scipii
          and not I_LocalFaction parthia

    AdviceThread TFT_Licinii_Campaign_Thread  0