VanillaMod Suggestions thread

[FactionHeir]

In diplomacy, several faction specific factors play a role: Whether it is a shadow faction, whether they are of the same religion as you and the current standings/reputations.

However, as you can see those aren't really specific to any one faction. Other variables do depend on monetary value and have been modified to make diplomacy more useful, but I didn't want to make florins too useful either, where you can buy half of someone's empire for 100k. While this isn't inherently a problem with humans (you can reject the offer) the AI just works by balancing numbers and will accept any offer (save military access and sometimes map info - seems to be an engine issue that doesn't let me fix these to display as the others to the fullest extent) that is rated generous or better.

Oh, and making factions your vassal only works if they want to be your vassal, i.e. are not a shadow faction and don't have a lot of allies that are all at war with you. You also need to be bordering their regions and have significantly more military prowess than them and their allies combined.

[pevergreen]

Shadow Faction?

Only suggestion I have is 2h Animations, if they arent fixed (I havent used 2 handers yet)

Make all ancilleries transferrable?

[FactionHeir]

Yeah, the animations aren't fixed because the ones currently out there are too strong (i.e. faster than 1H) or don't fit (halberd animation for 2H).
I've tweaked their stats though so they should be useful at times in melee against infantry while still being decent cav killers, but not overly so.

You are the second person to suggest transferrable ancillaries. I'll bring out an alt version for those of you who want all to be tranferrable in a bit.

[xjllm7]

hey i was wondering would it be feasible to change the year passed per turn from 2 years to 1 year. generals age 6 months per turn (correct me if im wrong) so i thought it would be more in sync. increasing build times and cost would balance the time difference. i was thinking of changing that in my game but i do not know how to do it. could anyone teach me?

[FactionHeir]

Please have a look here. I already posted a quick 1tpy script there

Since you have Vista, please ensure that after placing all three files into your imperial_campaign folder, you delete any hidden stuff of the old files you need to overwrite. Also, you need to start a new game for it to take effect.

[Johan217]

Only three suggestions really:
- include Kingdoms features Boiling oil, Control reinforcements and Hotseat like in the Retrofit mod
- include the Historical Character Names mod
- correct some spelling/language errors, mostly in diplomacy_speech.txt.strings.bin

If those seem like nitpicks it's because VanillaMod includes everything I want :)

One change I would like to make is to have characters age more realistically, like 1 year per turn (still not in pace with the game, but better at least). There is a script that does this, but it also makes devastation on the campaign map permanent. You can get around this by changing devastation parameters in descr_campaign_db.xml, but I think this only works for Kingdoms. Hence my first suggestion.

BTW Love the work you did on the character traits! I just wish there was a way to limit them

[FactionHeir]

Hello and welcome to VanillaMod

Unfortunately your first point cannot be done as it requires Kingdoms. I have vowed that this mod will never require Kingdoms so all those non Kingdoms players have a mod they can have fun with that is up to the standard of other Kingdoms mods.

I have been considering including the CNP, but finneys has been rather uncooperative with fixing bugs in his mod (CTD and missing names) or providing more information on it, so its currently out until that situation changes.

Not aware of diplomacy text bugs but then I hardly ever read them. Let me know when you get them (i.e. with which faction, talking to which faction about what and their response) or a rough outline of what was said so I can track it down and fix it.

Aging characters 1 year per turn is only possible by making the campaign stay always in winter mode, so that is not really a great option sadly