Glad to have been of help. Working in IT is good for some things.
Now ditch Vista and get a copy of Windows 7!
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Glad to have been of help. Working in IT is good for some things.
Now ditch Vista and get a copy of Windows 7!
The bain of my existence...Vista.If that is it, I have zero clue how to fix that.
I've changed all Pdox files from read only and it still won't work. Try that next.
EDIT - Thank you, Iain! Bloody Vista! Problem, solved. At least this one. Now, if anyone has an idea how to un-complicate the US revolutionary events, please do feel free to offer it.
Bah, alas. Good call Iain. Yeah, I have 7 and when I had Vista the first thing I did was turn of UAC.
Wow, the Revolution events are a real brain bender with the multiple triggers. Some it looks like require rebels to control certain provinces and for George III to be on the throne... The latter would have to be taken out obviously. Others depend on events received by the US.
Maybe it would be easier to raid the vanilla events file for US Revolution stuff. It seems a lot more straightforward... a few multiple choice events that could add some pretty big revolt risk.
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There are at least a few storm clouds brewing, but I hope to stay clear to some extent. Pick and choose and all that.
Indeed...Joe Storey would surely be telling me how timid I've been these last 20 years or so.
At least it is a preferred religion, but I do salivate over that CoT...at least for now.Attack the Dutch nao!
It is already too late!
They have corrupted two provinces on the eastern coast already.
Indeed, I have had Havard's bible near me since the beginning. Sadly, he does not anticipate one like myself unable to see a clear path to the save game. Thankfully, I had your advice that aided me considerably. Or at least until I fire up the save and something goes wrong.Its been a few months since I really messed around with events, but IIRC that will work... (just did a two minute test to make sure and it worked for me). You don't need to add anything into the save as you did with the leaders.
Probably goes without saying but event names and action names can be changed right in the file just the same as with the event description for the Act of Union - just on the off chance that you need to change any of that to fit the different circumstances that may be involved.
Let me know if you get stuck on something. I'm not the best at this, but I am following the AAR regularly, and well... I'm used to getting screwed up in the code myself.
Otherwise, Havard is still the man. Even now in the FtG era, having his site in a background window is still a good first step in editing events.
Good additions down in cotton territory. Too bad the Dutch got into Powhatan though... now containing them will be three times more work. Still, nothing wrong with a quiet decade. The positive stab events were beneficial.
Is Scotland in any alliance? Brandenburg is looking particularly strong right now as well as Sweden. They might bring you a nuisance war with Austria or Russia, but there is also a decent chance that they could give Spain or the Netherlands headaches at home while you go grabbing for colonies.
Scotland is not currently allied, but I am looking at both Sweden and Brandenburg as potential partners. There is the fear of being drawn into Europe, but it may very well be worth it, as you suggest. Good to have allies, especially against Spain.
Never wanted the Vista in the first place. I was perfectly happy with XP until some nimrod at Microsoft decided this Vista project was a goldmine. Maybe it was.
You may be happy to know that once I worked out the "save issue" I was able to move forward and move through the Rev. events. I thought you had a good idea and looked at the vanilla events and strangely enough, they are pretty much the same. The early modders pretty much got it perfected, I guess. It was a bit tricky trying to match up event triggers (and I did have to slightly edit the USA file) but I think I got everything as it should be to suggest a possible American Revolution. I may have missed a few steps and if so, I guess I'll see a crash or two.
Let's keep the fingers crossed.All desired leaders are now ported over (thank you again for all of your suggestions!) and with the US Revolution events complete, I've certainly caught up coding wise (some 55 events altered or created, here and there.
) I don't see need to add anything new until at least mid 18th century.The final events left to cover are the Napoleonic events and I must admit, the French file is much more complicated than the US. I am not as inclined to go messing about there to make triggers work. I am thinking perhaps a few smaller events to parallel such an effect on Scotland. Let me know if you guys have any ideas.
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It is past time for you to tackle the Dutch, depending on the answers to these questions: who are they allied to, how big is their army, and what is their land tech? If you can catch them out of an alliance, or allied with someone small, then go get them now - it won't be any easier later.
Indeed, by the way what do you know about the Dutch forces ?
I presume they have a pretty big navy, and good tech levels.
I presume they have a pretty big navy, and good tech levels.
Posted this over in the AGCEEP area of FtG but thought I'd add it here too to gain more eyes. I've tested everything and leaders work fine to the best of my knowledge and the events (at least the first few) seem to be firing perfectly. I am still getting an error message on loading the save game however and it seems to single out this event:
When I fire up the game, it gives me an error message on loading. I can ignore and the game starts fine but I cannot manually fire the event. The error message mentioned the deathdate line and the day and month, all of which look fine to me. I did not change anything about the event other than to alter ID/tags and include text that will show up in game. Any ideas?
And Director and Karaiskandar - I'd definitely looking at the Dutch. In fact one of the first events I made deals with them. Their land and naval tech is better than mine, but only slightly...well, except they are at the next CRT lvl. Their numbers, however are not much of a worry. Want to get into alliance first and then will likely move.
Code:
#(1665) The Great Plague
event = {
id = 164259
trigger = {
owned = { province = 247 data = -1 } #Anglia
}
random = no
country = SCO
name = "The Great Plague" #The Great Plague
desc = "The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in Scotland that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease is generally believed to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted via a rat vector. Other symptom patterns of the bubonic plague, such as septicemic plague and pneumonic plague were also present. Thought to have arrived from the Netherlands on merchant vessels, records state that deaths in London crept up to 1000 persons per week, then 2000 persons per week and, by September 1665, to 7000 persons per week. By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city. By this time, however, trade with the European continent had spread this outbreak of plague to France, where it died out the following winter. Nonetheless, a fifth of the city had been killed, resulting in an unprecedented loss of infrastructure and capital."
#-#The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in Scotland that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease is generally believed to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted via a rat vector. Other symptom patterns of the bubonic plague, such as septicemic plague and pneumonic plague were also present. Thought to have arrived from the Netherlands on merchant vessels, records state that deaths in London crept up to 1000 persons per week, then 2000 persons per week and, by September 1665, to 7000 persons per week. By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city. By this time, however, trade with the European continent had spread this outbreak of plague to France, where it died out the following winter. Nonetheless, a fifth of the city had been killed, resulting in an unprecedented loss of infrastructure and capital.
date = { day = 1 month = february year = 1665 }
offset = 90
deathdate = { day = 29 month = april year = 1665 }
action_a = {
name = "Argh!" #Argh!
command = { type = population which = 247 value = -8000 }
command = { type = province_revoltrisk which = 247 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = 247 value = -2 }
command = { type = infra value = -250 }
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}And Director and Karaiskandar - I'd definitely looking at the Dutch. In fact one of the first events I made deals with them. Their land and naval tech is better than mine, but only slightly...well, except they are at the next CRT lvl. Their numbers, however are not much of a worry. Want to get into alliance first and then will likely move.
Well IMHO the event is ok...really dunno why it's not working. I'm not a modding expert though. o
Maybe a missing bracket or something ?
oMaybe a missing bracket or something ?
Would it? Geroge I took the British throne upon Queen Anne's death because her children had died and George was the next in line (which probably came as quite a surprise to him
). However, in real life Anne only managed to get to the throne because James VII's son (who would have been James VIII) was displaced because of his Catholicism in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution (which saw William and Mary take the trone). James VII was a Catholic, having converted when in exile in France during the Civil War.
Now, you can either assume that because he was never in exile in France James would never have converted to catholicism and carry on with the Stuart dynasty. Or, you can take into account that James converted of his own accord (there was no political pressure here - it was just something he and his wife fancied doing) and assume that given that he had Catholic leanings that he would have converted anyway, antagonised the Church, Parliament and People of Britain and ended up being deposed.
I'm not trying to make more work for you here Coz - I'm just trying to show that Britain going down a non-Jacobite path wasn't a purely English phenomenon!
Would it? Geroge I took the British throne upon Queen Anne's death because her children had died and George was the next in line (which probably came as quite a surprise to him
However, in real life Anne only managed to get to the throne because James VII's son (who would have been James VIII) was displaced because of his Catholicism in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution (which saw William and Mary take the trone). James VII was a Catholic, having converted when in exile in France during the Civil War.
Now, you can either assume that because he was never in exile in France James would never have converted to catholicism and carry on with the Stuart dynasty. Or, you can take into account that James converted of his own accord (there was no political pressure here - it was just something he and his wife fancied doing) and assume that given that he had Catholic leanings that he would have converted anyway, antagonised the Church, Parliament and People of Britain and ended up being deposed.
I'm not trying to make more work for you here Coz - I'm just trying to show that Britain going down a non-Jacobite path wasn't a purely English phenomenon!
Fair enough in historical and alternate historical discussion, but what I'm saying is that if Coz wants the event to fire if James VIII and his heirs are on the throne, that would have to be taken out... moot as he went into the vanilla file and I don't think that trigger is in those events.
I had to do a last minute cut of a few events (mostly surrounding the great plague ) due to issues loading the save but now that they are culled, everything else works pretty well. I'll have a quick update to follow.
On George III, et al, I think I took care of both possibilities. The original SCO file allows for a choice to the Hanovarians somehow, though the status quo keeps us on the Stuart path. I edited some monarch IDs in the events so hopefully those will work should either line be in charge.
I do think there could be arguments made for some how making a change, but I had to cull most of the Jacobite-type events from the original ENG file as I don't think it would be as much an issue. In this timeline, Charles is a happy Prot. and I suspect his son will be just as much, as will his heirs. At least as long as I keep the SCO file. As I just spent the weekend editing said file, I think we can be assured we'll be seeing Stuarts from here on out.
) due to issues loading the save but now that they are culled, everything else works pretty well. I'll have a quick update to follow.On George III, et al, I think I took care of both possibilities. The original SCO file allows for a choice to the Hanovarians somehow, though the status quo keeps us on the Stuart path. I edited some monarch IDs in the events so hopefully those will work should either line be in charge.
I do think there could be arguments made for some how making a change, but I had to cull most of the Jacobite-type events from the original ENG file as I don't think it would be as much an issue. In this timeline, Charles is a happy Prot. and I suspect his son will be just as much, as will his heirs. At least as long as I keep the SCO file.
As I just spent the weekend editing said file, I think we can be assured we'll be seeing Stuarts from here on out.
1645 - 1650
We jump back into the game and get hit once again with unhappy merchants, clearly displeased at my spammy ways in Anglia...
I care little for their concerns as I am determined to break through and dominate there.
We lose Leven as leader in November 1645 and then in January 1646, a new CoT opens in Acadie. I send 3 of my disgruntled merchants and all 3 make it in. I guess they wanted out of town.
Another colonist is sent to Mobile and then I sign a new RM with Brandenburg. Still raising relations as best I can.
Then a gift arrives...
I love every one of them!
Unfortunately, the colony fails in Mobile. I will send another but I cannot afford multiple attempts.
But then we finally gain 5 merchants in Anglia...
I am triumphant and tell those unhappy to find other work.
In January 1647 that new colonist is sent to Mobile as we sit back and rest for a moment. It is then we get a new invention...
A goods manufactory opens in Northumberland which helps our cloth trade immensely.
Then Mobile fails again souring the mood.
We are able to make a slider move and do so towards free subjects just before stab research jumps one level bringing us back to +1 in November 1647.
January 1648 sees another colonist sent to Mobile...our third attempt...and finally by May they succeed. I send away another military advisor as I save my ducats, finally able to promote a chief judge in London in August.
And the people rejoice as another cleric performs a miracle...
If he could only do something about my inflation. *
Our leader Hamilton dies in October 1649 but we reach naval tech lvl 13 that December.
Moving into 1650, we take a step back and first look at the comparison table...
You can see the Dutch lead in tech (though actually, Venice seems to have the total edge) but Scotland is not too far behind.
Then we check the religious map...
My obvious partners show themselves well here, but then I've already heard the advice. Between Sweden and Brandenburg, one or both will be in my alliance.
Here is where the game is saved as new leaders and events are loaded in. I was able to include various attempts to model charters, emigration and some revolutionary events at this point as well as a decent subsection of the normal ENG file.
As we fire up again and move through 1650, the first event fires in January...
Hopefully modeling what might be a territorial dispute, it gives me some cores and a CB on the Dutch should I choose to go to war. But relations are tanked.
They weren't great to start with and certainly I choose option A.
In February, Sweden dishonors her current alliance and I move to jump in and take advantage. Sadly, they say no dropping relations to +130.
But events in America are not done as the Crown forms their first official charter...
New York becomes the first official attempt to provide colonial rule from afar as the wealth rolls in from the port of Manhattan. The result of the last 2 events gives me cores on a solid amount of territory...
It hopefully models the logic of the current ENG file taking into account the time-line of this history. I've given myself (perhaps greedily) a free CB on the Dutch. Guess I have to use it now.
Cool events. It doesn't look as if you're hopelessly behind the Netherlands in tech. Ideally, if you could just get within the same Land CRT, and get a respectable ally for the European theatre, there would be little reason not to strike.
With whom are they allied? If its just those Reformed German minors, I see on the map (Hesse and Bremen, looks like?) then thats not too bad. Just have to make sure that they don't have a big brother they can bring to the party.
With whom are they allied? If its just those Reformed German minors, I see on the map (Hesse and Bremen, looks like?) then thats not too bad. Just have to make sure that they don't have a big brother they can bring to the party.
Time for war I think. That was some nice events, and now that you have a CB on the Dutch it is time to save the American provinces from their oppressive Dutch rulers and incorporate more land into the great Scottish empire...
Nice work on the events! The Dutch must be expelled from New Scotland! Their orange clashes horribly with your blue!
If your navy is strong enough, the Dutch won't be able to do anything to stop you.
What of the Irish question? Surely their dangerous Catholic ways must be halted?
If your navy is strong enough, the Dutch won't be able to do anything to stop you.
What of the Irish question? Surely their dangerous Catholic ways must be halted?
Indeed, well done with the events, now to deal with the Dutch...Hopefully, the batteries at Sheerness are reinforced
Or would the Union's main naval bases be in the north?
Or would the Union's main naval bases be in the north?
I promise to get to fb-fb soon, but today I am sad to have to announce that my grandmother passed yesterday evening. Sadly during her recovery, she suffered a debilitating stroke that left her completely incapacitated. Entering hospice late last week, you can perhaps then understand my output this last weekend as it helped to take my mind from it for awhile. She was a strong character and even in the process of passing from this mortal coil, she kept going until her body simply could no longer keep up anymore. As her lungs filled with fluid, she could no longer fight. She is now, I am certain, again with her husband of 60 some odd years whom she lost in late 2008.
Once more, I was tasked with writing her obituary (the job of the only supposed writer in the family) - I have written the following:
I could have further written that this woman acted as a second mother to me, many of her thoughts and ways were taught to me at an early age. She cared for me during my mother's divorce when I was naught but 4 years of age and has always been the most loved person in my family, for me and many others. She was because she loved each and every one of us with every portion of her heart and soul. Her passing was peaceful, if perhaps slightly drawn out. She was never in pain after the stroke as far as I know and now she is with God which was her only wish in her death.
Those of you who read Into the West may recognize her input in the middle passage when Sonny is with One. Much of what One said to Sonny was entirely influenced by conversations with my Nana. You did not know her, but her influence is felt even on these boards.
I miss her already.
Once more, I was tasked with writing her obituary (the job of the only supposed writer in the family
) - I have written the following:I could have further written that this woman acted as a second mother to me, many of her thoughts and ways were taught to me at an early age. She cared for me during my mother's divorce when I was naught but 4 years of age and has always been the most loved person in my family, for me and many others. She was because she loved each and every one of us with every portion of her heart and soul. Her passing was peaceful, if perhaps slightly drawn out. She was never in pain after the stroke as far as I know and now she is with God which was her only wish in her death.
Those of you who read Into the West may recognize her input in the middle passage when Sonny is with One. Much of what One said to Sonny was entirely influenced by conversations with my Nana. You did not know her, but her influence is felt even on these boards.
I miss her already.