Traits

[BozosLiveHere]

This seems like a bug. A workaround might be restricting the traits themselves with the Characters line.

[alpaca]

Yes AgentType does generally not seem to work properly.

[Kobal2fr]

Working heavy-handedly on the VnV .txt at the moment, I noticed there are quite a lot of duplicate triggers, especially battle triggers. Same name, same WhenToTest, same conditions, same effects.

Do these have a purpose I cannot fathom, or can (and should) I clean them out without breaking stuff ? Did RTW have that kind of redundant triggers as well ?

[alpaca]

Working heavy-handedly on the VnV .txt at the moment, I noticed there are quite a lot of duplicate triggers, especially battle triggers. Same name, same WhenToTest, same conditions, same effects.

Do these have a purpose I cannot fathom, or can (and should) I clean them out without breaking stuff ? Did RTW have that kind of redundant triggers as well ?

Can you give an example?

[Kobal2fr]

Sure. From my backup export_descr_character_traits.txt :

line 10726 :

Trigger battle7
WhenToTest BattleGeneralRouted

Affects Coward 1 Chance 25

line 13500 :

Trigger battle7
WhenToTest BattleGeneralRouted

Affects Coward 1 Chance 25

EDIT : there's also a few triggers with the same name, but differing effects, which is frankly sloppy. I assume I can change the name to whatever I like in order to avoid confusion without breaking the trigger, can't I ? (but perhaps these questions of mine shouldn't be asked here but rather in the "learn to mod" section, now that I think about it...)

[alpaca]

Hmm interesting. I guess the game takes the last version in the files for each trigger. It should be safe to delete them if they have the same name.

[Kraxis]

There is also the nice Blood Hound ancilliary that when triggered gives your general an Overseer (which is why we see so many of them). Basically the writer managed to cope the trigger of the Overseer down to the Blood Hound (which I think is for the Spy, and rather good too).