Help writing an event

[Jingles]

So I am playing as Russia and I would like to add an event that would correspond with my Russification policies. It's been a long time since I've tried to write an event, and it never worked well to begin with.

Can someone please show me how to make an event that would occur once per year (let's say January 20) starting in 1878 that would convert 1% of my non-national culture (or cultural minorities) to Russian culture?

Also, can someone show me how to do a similar event except that it converts 1% of my religious minority to Orthodox?

Thank you very much!

 

[unmerged(42621)]

I'm no expert in event scripting and someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but I think something like this:

event = {
id = 5008359
random = no
invention = no
country = RUS

date = { day = 20 month = january year = 1878 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 31 month = december year = 1878 }

name = "Russification"
desc = "Russification on the roll!"
style = 0

action_a = {
name = "Ok"
command = { type = convert_pop_type which = cultural_minority value = russian when = 1 }
}

}​

For religious conversion replace ¨cultural¨ with ¨religious¨and ¨russian¨with ¨orthodox¨. The problem is though that to make an event happen repeatedly you'll have make it persistent which doesn't work very well as you have to save and reload every year to fire the event. So it would be probably just better to copy-paste and edit id and dates to make an event for every single year. Lot of work of course; less arduous option is to make events which fire every five or ten years and convert five or ten percent respectively.

 

[unmerged(77251)]

IIRC, the when = % tag is completely buggy. If you set "when = 1", sometimes, you'll convert over 5%, sometimes nothing at all. Works much better id you add a "where =" tag, and manually specify target states.

 

[|AXiN|]

The % works in a different way to that you are expecting - each potentially targeted pop is given a % chance to convert. So say your event convert 1% of Poles to Russian, each Polish pop is seperately given a 1% chance to become Russian. It's not a flat 1% of the non-Russian population.

 

[unmerged(77251)]

The % works in a different way to that you are expecting - each potentially targeted pop is given a % chance to convert. So say your event convert 1% of Poles to Russian, each Polish pop is seperately given a 1% chance to become Russian. It's not a flat 1% of the non-Russian population.

Ahhhhh ! One less mystery in the universum ... This explains why you can end up with far more conversion than expected: if you just hit the 90k strong pop, in middle of a sea of 1k strong pops. Thanks for clearing this out.

 

[|AXiN|]

I'm pretty sure jonesy was the one who discovered it - he's how I found out, at least.

 

[Jingles]

Thanks for your help everyone. I've got the results I was looking for now.