Can I use a script to end the turn?

[mrtwisties]

Makanyane - in my own chaste way, I love you. Here's the partially working script:

script

declare_counter loop
set_counter loop 0

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType romans_julii
and I_TurnNumber < 5

console_command control greek_cities
campaign_wait 10
console_command add_money 40000
console_command control romans_julii

end_monitor

while I_CompareCounter loop = 0
end_while

end_script

This fast-forwarded me to 268 BCE. All I had to do was click a few boxes along the way. When I got to 268 BCE, the AI had taken Segesta and built a whole bunch of units for the Julii. Meanwhile, the Greeks had built up a fortune of some hundreds of thousands of denarii.

So all I have to do is figure out how to avoid having to click through the scrolls, and I'll be able to use this to fast forward to any turn.

[mrtwisties]

I tested the script again, using it to fast forward 50 turns to 245 BCE. If you decide to do the same, make sure you turn off "follow AI characters", which I didn't do the first time. Turns out the AI likes to put spies and diplomats everywhere, which means you end up following one helluva lot of AI characters. Running RTW.exe in windowed mode was definitely a good idea, though.

The Romans and the Greeks got into an extended naval war, which I witnessed first-hand from both sides. It was actually kind of fun to see, and verified that both factions are highly active when they're under AI control. I guess forgetting to take away +40,000 denarii for the Greeks every turn probably contributed to them getting ornery, huh?

I had also forgotten that those dog units existed in vanilla RTW. Turns out the AI likes to move around whole armies of them. Not sure how I feel about that. Pretty sure the answer is "mirthful", though - the dogs of the Julii more or less chased the Gauls out of northern Italy. Dogmatix would have been ashamed. But then the Gauls came back with a whole mass of soldiers, and they all had a bunch o' fight near the Po.

By the end of the 50 turns:
* The Julii owned northern Italy
* The Brutii owned Epirus and Dalmatia
* The Scipii owned Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and bits of Tunisia
* The Gauls owned bits of Spain, for which I don't blame them, I understand it's got lovely countryside
* The Seleucids were swallowed by Parthia and the Ptolemies (I mean, *cough*, Egypt)
* Pontus were on their way to becoming a superpower
* The Sweboz and the Getai were both massive

But despite all the fun, it was 50 turns that I had to sit there for, clicking on the occasional scroll. Here are the ones that paused or delayed the turn sequence. I need to find a way to automagically resolve these, so I can do something else with my life while the script is fast-forwarding:

* Diplomacy scrolls
* Naval battle predeployment
* Land battle predeployment
* Assistance requested from SPQR
* Senate missions (create massive lag during the turn sequence)

I can't find events for any of these in the docudemon. Do they exist? And can anyone suggest code for automagically resolving these happenings (preferably with the AI deciding what to do)?

[mrtwisties]

Thanks for the -ai link, M. I'm testing that as well.

[mrtwisties]

Hmmm... my capacity to edit my posts seems to appear and disappear at random.

Anyhoo, first attempts with the -ai command are a bit buggy. I can put myself in control of a faction, I can end turn, I can keep playing with that faction for a bit... I can even save the game I'm playing with the faction. But I can't load the game again. Any attempt to do so CTDs.

I'm trying again with a different faction - the Julii, instead of the Gauls. I figure the Gauls aren't unlocked in my RTW game, so that might be why loading a Gallic game CTDs.

[mrtwisties]

The -ai thing totally works. I just took over a Julii campaign in 168 BCE. Then I saved it. Then I closed RTW. Then I loaded it and played for a bit.

Totally. Works.

[Red Spot]

afaik the -ai switch will not work properly ...

at least I've ran a zillion games with the -ai switch and there is always "something" that makes me believe there is some diff. (dont ask me what, I just wouldnt risk it, the -ai switch clearly hasnt been intended to jump a campaign ... my advise, dont use it as such)


also about the "simulate_mouse_click lclick_down/up" ... afaik you do not need both, dont know where people got the 2nd command from but I'm not using it and have the same results ...


G

[mrtwisties]

You're right. When I implemented the -ai switch in EB, I couldn't get the EB background script to work, even when I turned the ai switch off and reloaded the game.