An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

**paullus** · 03-04-2006, 23:05

Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard

Depends on what the AI faction has done. What AI event do you want to trigger it?

Beseiging a city would probably be best.

**Epistolary Richard** · 03-05-2006, 10:31

Besieging a city's tricky, you can put a conditional in for a monitor to fire if an enemy family member is within one tile of a certain location and if the two factions are at war.

Gets a bit cumbersome with large numbers of factions and cities, but it's possible.

LorDBulA does something similar with his Roma siege script, have a look at his code:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24968

You can use something like that to increment a counter and then have a separate monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal with an I_CompareCounter condition. Be sure to set the counter back to 0 though, otherwise it will keep triggering.

**Tittils** · 03-05-2006, 22:16

This is a quite similar question, but I hope it can be done:

Is it possible to make an army (or naval army) besiege a city/port at game start through a script? I'm not very familiar with scrpits, so I hope someone could help me with this one.

- Tittils -

**paullus** · 03-07-2006, 23:42

ER,

Sorry I was unclear. I meant to say "besieging a neutral city." Unless I'm missing something (certainly a possibility), I don't think those conditions would work with a city you do not own. Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks much.

**LorDBulA** · 03-08-2006, 09:36

As it was said there is no easy way to check for siege.
The only way is to detect enemy army near a settlement.
You can do this for any faction holding city and any faction standing next to the city.
Proximity alert should be set to 2 titles. If you set it to 1 it wont be triggered if enemy attacks from any of city corners.

**paullus** · 03-08-2006, 15:10

Oh ok, I guess I misunderstood. Thanks.

**SigniferOne** · 03-10-2006, 04:52

I don't understand, I'm using Malrubius' code:

Code:

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FactionType empire_west
      and Trait AgeTraitLevel1 = 1
         ; do some stuff
     
end_monitor

To do something to the character when a turn starts, but nothing happens. Here's the full code:

Code:

	console_command give_trait "Gaius Fabricius" GoodCommander 2
	campaign_wait 2
	console_command add_money 1000
	campaign_wait 2

	monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FactionType empire_west
		and Trait GoodCommander = 2

		; do stuff

	end_monitor

I start the campaign, press F1 and run the script, the Trait is added, I press Next Turn expecting some stuff to happen to the char based on that trait, but nothing happens... Help?

PS: ER, would you like me to use the other thread referencing this one from now on?