Help me understand some vanilla code

[buhite2]

I'm sure most of you have noticed the vassal wargoal always costs 60 warscore. I took a look at the wargoals intending to mod the vassal CB to scale with empire size, but looking at the script...why doesn't it already??? Shouldn't the "scaled_modifier" section increase the cost per pop?

vassalize_country = {
   execution_order = 1
  
   parameters = {
     country = {
       type = country
     }
   }
  
   warscore_cost = {
     base = 60  

     scaled_modifier = {
       scope = parameter:country
       add = 0.5
       calc = pop_count
     }    
    
     modifier = {
       factor = 0.5
       parameter:country = {
         exists = overlord
       }
     }
   }

 

[Warial]

Well, I don't see any other reason for modifiers in warscore_cost scope. It's likely that it is broken.

 

[Swizzlewizzle]

This code *should* work. They probably weren't able to finish the hard wired code that allows scaled_modifier to bring in country as a scope. You will notice it works fine when referencing planets as the scope, but not countries.

 

[Warial]

It's hard to tell since EU4 and CK2 casus belli were coded differently. Probably only PDX devs are able to tell the truth.