Help a new modder out

[anexgohan]

Hey everyone,
I'm trying to mod some things and I was looking into \Stellaris\common\opinion_modifiers "00_opinion_modifiers.txt" file
can anyone explain to me what "unique = yes" and "accumulative = yes" does
Also, how do I add a modifier so that it decreases in value over distance.
What i'm trying to do is, i'm trying to make it so that no matter how much aggressive I am or any other AI the threat does not exceed -100 value so our relations are not affected by more than -100 points but no matter what I do I cannot put a cap on it it just keeps on going.
Thankyou.

 

[allocater]

If you add a modifier i.e. 3 times, it will look like this:
Likes Modders +30
Likes Modders +30
Likes Modders +30

"unique = yes" will cause it to do the first add, but ignore the second add and third add and will look like this:
Likes Modders +30

"accumulative = yes" will cause it to merge the 3 adds, and it will look like this:
Likes Modders +90

"unique = yes" and "accumulative = yes" will ... I have no idea, maybe it explodes.

"decreases in value over distance", I also don't know, sorry.

 

[anexgohan]

If you add a modifier i.e. 3 times, it will look like this:
Likes Modders +30
Likes Modders +30
Likes Modders +30

"unique = yes" will cause it to do the first add, but ignore the second add and third add and will look like this:
Likes Modders +30

"accumulative = yes" will cause it to merge the 3 adds, and it will look like this:
Likes Modders +90

"unique = yes" and "accumulative = yes" will ... I have no idea, maybe it explodes.

"decreases in value over distance", I also don't know, sorry.

Thankyou, i think it makes it more clear to me now,
Also i'm trying to make it so that no matter how much aggressive I am or any other AI the threat does not exceed -100 value but no matter what I do I cannot put a cap on it.

 

[allocater]

Setting a minimum should be easy with:

min = -1000

 

[anexgohan]

Setting a minimum should be easy with:

min = -1000

It does not affect any thing I tried to set it to -100 but it always goes over that and even goes over -1000

 

[anexgohan]

Can anyone help me cap the threat value to say -200 instead of unlimited.
I just need to set an upper limit to threat.

 

[allocater]

You have it "accumulative = yes" right? Post the entire opinion modifier.

 

[anexgohan]

You have it "accumulative = yes" right? Post the entire opinion modifier.

# Threat opinion modifier
opinion_threat = {
opinion = {
base = -1
}

min = -100

unique = yes
}

 

[anexgohan]

In opinion_modifiers.txt, if I set "base = -1" to "base = 1" then in game the threat becomes a positive modifier so I think it is the correct value, but for some weird reason "min = -100" value just doesnt do anything

 

[allocater]

uh, how does that look in game?

You add 300 times this modifier?

I think you have to remove the unique and add the accumulative.

 

[anexgohan]

so I tried

# Threat opinion modifier
opinion_threat = {
opinion = {
base = -1
}

min = -100

accumulative = yes
}

this gives the same result as soon as I win a war conquering planets from AI the threat shoots to -613, what I want is it to remain at the cap value of -100 never going up anlo decaying over time

 

[allocater]

How do you add 613 of this modifier? All at once? Or a loop of 613 iterations?

Ok, I just realized this is a vanilla modifier and it even has min = -1000 in vanilla. Does this even work?

Maybe the minimum check only applies if you add the opinion modifier with add_opinion_modifier. But this modifier is added by the c++ core and ignores the limit.

 

[anexgohan]

I'm beginning to think its hard coded as well.