Character Age, Detecting Settlement Captures

**maste1n** · 05-06-2006, 12:53

To determine character age, use CharacterAge in export_descr_character_traits.txt but not as a trait...

;------------------------------------------
Trigger general_ages1
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition AgentType = family
and CharacterAge > 15
and CharacterAge < 40
and Trait AgeingGeneral < 1

Affects AgeingGeneral 1 Chance 100

I've got this working in my bug-fixer 3.36/GAPH Modded RTW :)

**player1** · 05-06-2006, 13:19

You mean there is actually condition CharacterAge in the game?

Great find...

**nikolai1962** · 05-07-2006, 03:57

Originally Posted by maste1n

To determine character age, use CharacterAge in export_descr_character_traits.txt but not as a trait...

;------------------------------------------
Trigger general_ages1
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition AgentType = family
and CharacterAge > 15
and CharacterAge < 40
and Trait AgeingGeneral < 1

Affects AgeingGeneral 1 Chance 100

I've got this working in my bug-fixer 3.36/GAPH Modded RTW :)

Argh! When i was trying i tried

"Trait CharacterAge" and "Attribute CharacterAge" but not plain CharacterAge

I bet you can get CharacterName too.

Definitely a great find. Kudos

**Marcus Camillus** · 05-07-2006, 05:57

Originally Posted by maste1n

To determine character age, use CharacterAge in export_descr_character_traits.txt but not as a trait...

;------------------------------------------
Trigger general_ages1
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition AgentType = family
and CharacterAge > 15
and CharacterAge < 40
and Trait AgeingGeneral < 1

Affects AgeingGeneral 1 Chance 100

I've got this working in my bug-fixer 3.36/GAPH Modded RTW :)

This is great news indeed. Its just what I have been looking for to use in my current mod so that newly acquired Roman characters can have the experience and ranks appropriate for their age. Now its back to my "Mod Testing Lab" for some new experimenting. Thank you for sharing this!

**alpaca** · 05-07-2006, 10:48

Before you guys get overexcited let me state that this condition doesn't work for me.
When I try to use it, it actually works as if there was no condition at all.

What I tried was a vanilla game with triggers:

Code:

Condition CharacterAge > 40 - where it was awarded to all characters
Condition CharacterAge < 15 - where it was again awarded to all characters
Condition not CharacterAge >= 15 - where it, too, was awarded to all characters

Concluding this condition seems to work like TrueCondition (or is not included at all) ;)

**Atilius** · 05-07-2006, 11:06

Originally Posted by maste1n

To determine character age, use CharacterAge in export_descr_character_traits.txt but not as a trait...

;------------------------------------------
Trigger general_ages1
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition AgentType = family
and CharacterAge > 15
and CharacterAge < 40
and Trait AgeingGeneral < 1

Affects AgeingGeneral 1 Chance 100

I've got this working in my bug-fixer 3.36/GAPH Modded RTW :)

I was unable to get this CharacterAge thing to work. It's been my experience that if you add a condition that makes no sense, a trigger will always treat the condition as being true. I thought this might be what happened here, so I tried the following experiment.

I created a trait named ImpossibleTrait:

Code:

;------------------------------------------
Trait ImpossibleTrait
    Characters family

    Level Impossible_Trait
        Description Impossible_Trait_desc
        EffectsDescription Impossible_Trait_effects_desc
        Threshold  1

which is enabled only by the trigger ShouldntSucceed:

Code:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger ShouldntSucceed
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

    Condition CharacterAge > 25
           and CharacterAge < 25


    Affects ImpossibleTrait  1  Chance  100

Clearly this trigger should never succeed, so no character should ever acquire the trait ImpossibleTrait. However, when I ran the game, all my characters immediately acquired the it.

So, if I haven't screwed up here (and please experiment for yourselves - I'd very much like to be wrong), CharacterAge is meaningless and any condition using it simply evaluates to true by default.

maste1n,
If your trigger works correctly, a character 40 years old or more who doesn't already have the AgeingGeneral trait will never get it. Have you verified this?

**maste1n** · 05-07-2006, 12:06

Just rechecked this and it looks like Atilius is right.

I've been playing with various age style checks and only CharacterAge seemed to work.

Just changed it back to Age and it does exactly the same.

Really sorry guys, I thought I'd cracked it and wanted to pass it on.

I'll keep looking.

**Atilius** · 05-07-2006, 15:57

No problem maste1n, the trigger parser should really generate a show_err when it doesn't understand a condition. The fact that it doesn't is an ongoing source of grief.

**nikolai1962** · 05-07-2006, 19:44

**Marcus Camillus** · 05-08-2006, 01:31

Darn, I was really hoping this would work. There aught to be some syntax for the age attribute. Well, guess I am stuck for now with my interum workaround. Thanks for trying though.