Missions - Pope. Council and Guild

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Taken from descr_missions.txt

Pope Missions: 
               - join crusade
               - return home city
               - cease_hostilities
               - assassinate_cardinal
               - assassinate_witch
               - papal_blockade_port
               - break_alliance
               - papal_build_church
               - convert
               - gift_from_pope
               - give_cash
               - give_ancillary
               - recruit_priest
 Council Missions: 
                - assassinate_general
                - council_blockade_port
                - council_take_rebel_settlement
                - council_take_settlement
               - gift_from_council
                - council_marry_princess
                - annex_settlement
 Guild Missions: 
               - guild_take_settlement
               - guild_recruit_agent
               - guild_acquisition
               - guild_trade_agreement

This Line is particulary interesting

- difficulty_threshold [float]	difficulty threshold used for mission rejection.  mission difficulty levels <= difficulty threshold are not selected for first 50 turns or if player on easy difficulty setting (default = 0.0)

So some missions are off limits for first 50 turns or on easy.
Along with turn_start. turn_start default is 2, so you cannot get a missions before turn 2. (which makes sense)
Some missions have their own turn_start, for instance, blockade port can be given from turn 3.
One pope mission is return_home_city (ie give rome to them) reward for doing so:

	reward
	{
		null_payback	HUGE_PAPAL_STANDING_REWARD
		null_payback	VNV_ADORED_BY_POPE

no doing so:

		null_payback	LARGE_PAPAL_STANDING_PENALTY
		excommunication_chance	0.05
		inquisition_chance	0.05

Multiple other things as well as rewards, but this is the best

payback_list pope_rome_min_penalty_major_reward
{
	reward
	{
		null_payback	HUGE_PAPAL_STANDING_REWARD
		money		2000
		null_payback	VNV_ADORED_BY_POPE
		;null_payback	CHANCE_ANC_RELIC
	}

Is that Chance for ancillery relic edited out? Shame if it is.

Reward for killing Cardinal (not confirmed)

		null_payback	VNV_POPES_ENFORCER

The Council gifts of money are in 500, 1000, 2000 as is the popes, but with the addition of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 income.

Unit Rewards:

payback_list council_mod_unit
{
	reward
	{
 		buildable_unit 		800	3
	}
}

payback_list council_mod_unit_best
{
	reward
	{
		best_buildable_unit	1200	3
	}
}

payback_list council_major_unit
{
	reward
	{
		best_buildable_unit	1200	4

The Regicide missions from other factions are intersting. It is commented out

; TBD add faction_standing_boost via this file etc.

So they havent finished parts of the game after all...

Chance for AI faction to join the crusade

chance of ai accepting = ai_accept_base_chance + (faction_standing_to_papacy * ai_accept_fs_modifier) + (global_standing * ai_accept_gs_modifier) + (num_settlements_owned * ai_sett_modifier)

More detail inside spoiler

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Expanded from above

    settlement Rome			; the id of the settlement belonging to the papal states
    ai_accept_base_chance 20.0		; base chance for ai accepting mission
    ai_accept_fs_modifier 80.0		; ai chance modifier for the papal standing with the ai faction.  i.e. the more they like the pope, the greater the chance
    ai_accept_gs_modifier 20.0		; ai chance modifier for the factions global standing.  i.e. the more tructed the faction, the higher chance to give back
    ai_min_settlements    3		; the minimum number of settlements an ai faction must have to accept
    ai_sett_modifier      5.0		; ai chance modifier for each settlement an ai faction has


; chance = popes_violence_attribute * -0.03 + (pfp_score_threshold - attackers_pfp)/8 + (defenders_pfp + 1)/8
; chance += settlement_score_offset (if target is a settlement)
; chance += default_settlement_score_offset (if targets default owner is attacker)
; chance += navy_score_offset (if a naval battle)
; chance += army_score_offset (if not a settlement or naval battle)
; chance += military_access_score_offset (if not a settlement or naval battle and target has miloitary access)
; chance += own_region_army_score_offset (if battle in attackers own region)
; chance *= ai_atacker_modifier (if attacker is ai)
; chance *= ai_human_defender_modifier (if defender is human)
; chance *= ai_papal_defender_modifier (if defender is papal states)
; chance += target_mission_offset (if target already has a cease hostilities mission against attacker)

The Reason for killing Cardinal missions dont appear often(or at all)

    difficulty_threshold 0.4		; assassination mission marked as too difficult if chance of success <= 40%

If the pope asks you to blockade port, it looks like you have to do it for 3 turns. And it has to be within 3 turns distance of a ship.

Your Papal standing affects how much you get off him for the gift_from_pope

All Assassination missionds have to have better than 40% chance to succeed, otherwise not given.

Example of Council Mission:

mission annex_settlement
{
    COUNCIL_MISSION
    duration 10
    exclude_duration 30
    score_modifier 0.8
    turn_start		3
   paybacks
    {
	random 0.33	payback_id council_mod_income
	random 0.5	payback_id council_mod_unit
			payback_id council_mod_unit_best
    }

    min_strength_balance	3.0	; minimum ratio of sent faction to target faction army strength for issue of mission
}

So 33% chance of mod income that is; 2000 Florins, and 5% chance of mod unit and mod unit best.

Mod unit is 3 units with max cost of 800 and mod unit best is 3 units with max cost of 1200

All the missions guilds can give are there, found the Masons ones are to build church line of buidling (majid/church)

And the end of the file, would allows with some simple modding, for other religions to crusade/jihad! But Variable not allowed

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mission crusade_active ; (NOT SUITABLE FOR VARIANTS)
{
    duration 0
    paybacks
    {
        payback_id empty_payback
    }

    eligible_religions
    {
        catholic
    }
}


mission jihad_active ; (NOT SUITABLE FOR VARIANTS)
{
    duration 0
    paybacks
    {
        payback_id empty_payback
    }

    eligible_religions
    {
        islam

Edit: Some minor fix ups
Thank you