New food for the hungry: Titles sneak peek

[alpaca]

How did...what the....how???!?!?

The best I could come up with to explain how you're assigning this "designated to rule" trait is a trigger with the CharacterSelected event and I_EventCounter condition. Am I too far?

Fantastic job, by the way. It's great to see people being innovative in this area.

No, I use "console_command give_trait this Florence_Province_Rule 1"
That's why you have to select a character in the first place *cough*

It's easy and reliable (and comfortable for the player).

[SigniferOne]

Alpaca, geez, that's amazing, grats on a job well done, another great script idea.

[BozosLiveHere]

No, I use "console_command give_trait this Florence_Province_Rule 1"
That's why you have to select a character in the first place *cough*

It's easy and reliable (and comfortable for the player).

Holy crap....I never knew we could do that. That opens up a lot of possibilities. I have to see if it works in RTW now.

[alpaca]

Holy crap....I never knew we could do that. That opens up a lot of possibilities. I have to see if it works in RTW now.

Afaik that only works in M2TW.

You could also do a trigger combined with an event counter setting though, it'd work equally well. In fact, I could directly trigger the normal ruler trait that way but I thought it'd make sense if the ruler isn't directly appointed both historically and from a gameplay point of view (so you can change your mind without penalty for example).

Edit: By the way, another nifty thing for modders that's related to this is my advisor cycle. I often have multiple advisors pending on events like SettlementSelected for example. So what I did is script an advisor cycle that cycles through the available messages when you select the settlement. So every time you click on it, you get the next message (if there are more than one). It's an easy way to overcome the problem of searching for a new interface for each interaction (because I'm also implementing things like Bishop titles and other offices).
Here's the code for it if you're interested (so far, only two possible states but more will be added):

declare_counter advisor_cycle_pos_select
declare_counter skip_monitor

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Florence
	
	; Position 0: no character present
	if I_CompareCounter advisor_cycle_pos_select == 0
		if I_CompareCounter advisor_cycle_character_present 1
			advance_advice_thread No_Character_Present_Thread
			set_counter skip_monitor 1
		end_if
		inc_counter advisor_cycle_pos_select 1
	end_if
	
	; Position 1: Province title/Cancel province title
	if I_CompareCounter advisor_cycle_pos_select == 1
		and I_CompareCounter skip_monitor == 0
		
		if I_EventCounter Florence_Title == 0
			advance_advice_thread New_Ruler_Thread
			set_counter skip_monitor 1
		end_if
		if I_EventCounter Florence_Title == 3
			advance_advice_thread Cancel_New_Ruler_Thread
			set_counter skip_monitor 1
		end_if
		;inc_counter advisor_cycle_pos_select 1
		set_counter advisor_cycle_pos_select 0
	end_if
	
	set_counter skip_monitor 0
end_monitor

Edit2: The above code also contains my implementation of an Else if statement (the skip_monitor thing)

[alpaca]

Here's a quick look at the first office title I implemented:



This one is available for each settlement, but linked to a special building called the Episcopal Palace which can be constructed in the larger cities (but it requires a cathedral). The title can be upgraded with the building to that of an archbishop.
The bonuses are WIP of course.
We'll probably also link some random event to this, guess what it is

[Tellos Athenaios]

Electing a new pope?

[alpaca]

No, the pope is still elected by cardinals who are drawn from amongst the priests.
The bishop title is for named characters (aka generals).
Note that I have been convinced to remove the command bonus, the title works now slightly differently.