Dragon rider suggestions

[blackninja9939]

1) Ehhh that is kinda unavoidable as they make great marshalls but will see if there is anything we can do to tweak the ai appointing them
2) Not possible to have them all be leaders of your armies as you are limited to your number of commanders
3) That would be a massive pain to code and honestly would not lead too much of a benefit, all it would be is making a duel out of the dragon fight based on martial then give them a couple of modifiers for say attacking or defending etc. Currently it is just a measure of total dragon strengths and then apply damage to the losers and possibly to the winners which works pretty well and in pretty much all the ones I have seen a dragon is always wounded or maimed at a minimum
4) The age is there for Dany and also to give the bonus tactics that come from being a dragon rider, which do no vary based on age of the dragon IIRCE

 

[blackninja9939]

Also is there a way we can change the rate in which it randomizes the photo for the dragons? i get the same picture for my dragon hatches for almost every new dragon... i hatched 3 in one game and all looked identical.

They all have an equal chance of getting one of the images, there are only like 20 images so you are bound to get repetition

 

[blackninja9939]

A bit of a brute-force solution, but one way would be to add a condition to the can_be_marshal trigger:

OR = {
liege = { AI = no }
NOT = { trait = dragon_rider }
}

So the player can appoint a dragon-rider as their marshal if they want, but the AI won't.

Or, to allow for dragonriders to be councillors in peacetime but ensure that the AI has them available as commanders in wartime, add this to all the can_be_<councillor> triggers:

OR = {
liege = { AI = no }
NOT = { trait = dragon_rider }
liege = { war = no }
}

So dragonriding vassals of AI lords immediately leave the council when war breaks out, and are thus available for selection as commanders.

But that is not really a good fix as we would rather they can be on the council if they fit well for said position

 

[blackninja9939]

wait there is a child picture for the dragons?

Yes up until 16ish they all look the same as that is how ck2 portraits work. Notice how all children of a culture look the same until they get to about 16 at which point their actual portrait is shown, same thing happens with dragons