Creating timers

[Wave]

Helloes once again!

I've been fiddling with the mean_time_to_happen = { part in the events for a couple of days now and it seems that it doesn't count anywhere near the wanted amount of days, months or years. So far only thing that works at all as wanted is mean_time_to_happen = { days = 1 } which has a range of 1 day to 1 month of waiting before triggering, usually only a couple of days.

I tried 150 days and 6 months to get an event triggering every half a year or so but it seems that it triggers randomly between half a year and five years, which them makes it useless for me. Same goes with an event which had mean_time_to_happen = { years = 1}, though I haven't seen it trigger more than once yet and it was approximately 5-6 years too late as well..

So has anyone found a way to create more accurate timers which wouldn't work with opening events regularly to keep the game in track of days?

 

[Lofman]

Try having the event adding a modifier lasting as long as you want to wait until it is time for it again and make sure the trigger includes not having that modifier active (look at the way the 'adapt or perish' or whatever it is called (the one that can increase civ-level for tribes) event works).

 

[Wave]

That's actually a very good idea, thanks!

modifiers work like swiss clocks so then the event would fire only a bit later than supposed if event time works as usually but in that small scale it is ignorable.

 

[Cheexsta]

"Mean" is a mathematical term for "average", so the MTTH is just defining the average time for the event to trigger. That is, there is about a 50% chance that the event will trigger before the defined MTTH, but it could trigger well afterwards.

If you want to set a timer, do what Lofman said. If you want the timer to count down after an event, have it set a country flag and country modifier. That way, once the countdown modifier expires, then you can have your following event trigger with the existence of that country flag, but the non-existence of the modifier.

Also, if you want to trigger an event after exactly one day, you could use a title hack. Titles are triggered one day after their conditions are met, and can be used to manually call events, so you can have a title that triggers exactly when you need it, call an event, and then automatically expires one day later. And the player doesn't event have to know, especially if you can make the title icon invisible...

 

[Wave]

"Mean" is a mathematical term for "average", so the MTTH is just defining the average time for the event to trigger. That is, there is about a 50% chance that the event will trigger before the defined MTTH, but it could trigger well afterwards..

Well now it makes a lot more sense...

I just need to have several timers running simultaneously so It'll mean a lot of modifier icons but I won't take it as a problem yet.

 

[Cheexsta]

You could always make the modifier icons invisible The player doesn't even need to know it was there.