How to modify the number of provinces captured after battle?

[MoralMonster]

Hi everyone. I am experimenting with my own mod. Along with other things I want to reduce the percentage of state that is occupied after victory in battle. I want to do this to make warfare more gradual and especially to reduce the situation when AI leaves an empty front and the whole country is invaded in a few weeks. I tried to modify the following defines:

BATTLE_BASE_MIN_PROVINCES_TAKEN
BATTLE_BASE_MAX_PROVINCES_TAKEN
BATTLE_PROVINCES_TAKEN_ATTACKING_UNIT_SCALE
BATTLE_PROVINCES_TAKEN_THEATER_UNIT_SCALE

OCCUPATION_STATE_BASE_WEIGHT
OCCUPATION_STATE_POP_WEIGHT
OCCUPATION_STATE_INCORPORATED_WEIGHT
OCCUPATION_STATE_DEFENSIVE_BATTLE_VICTORY_SCORE
OCCUPATION_STATE_CLEAR_OCCUPATION_FRACTION

But it seems that nothing happens after it. Successful battle results in occupying approx.25% of the contested state, as it was before. If someone knows the solution, thanks in advance.

 

[CaesarVincens]

Rather than editing the defines (other than maybe max provinces taken), you'll want to edit the file common/script_values/occupation_values.txt

 

[MoralMonster]

Rather than editing the defines (other than maybe max provinces taken), you'll want to edit the file common/script_values/occupation_values.txt

Thank you, this was helpful. However, there is another issue. I opened this file and made the following challenges:

@max_battles_to_win_state = 100 (was 4)

and increased maximum occupation cost from population to 2000 (previous value = 1000)

It gave the desired outcome, instead of 25% each successful battle started to give 3-5% of the state, with the corresponding visual effect. However, after this change taking even 1% of enemy territory gives war exhaustion as if the whole country was occupied. I don't know why it happens, on the first look, occupation_values.txt contains nothing related to war exhaustion.

 

[CaesarVincens]

Hm, the war exhaustion values are in that folder, too (the helpfully named war_exhaustion_values.txt). Though editing the occupation values shouldn't affect the other, and anyway partial occupation of a state shouldn't count for occupation at any amount.

 

[MoralMonster]

Hm, the war exhaustion values are in that folder, too (the helpfully named war_exhaustion_values.txt). Though editing the occupation values shouldn't affect the other, and anyway partial occupation of a state shouldn't count for occupation at any amount.

Editing this file doesn't help because it uses some parameter enemy_occupation, which seems to be hardcoded. And the game thinks it to be 1, even if in fact 5 or 10% of country's territory is occupied.

 

[CaesarVincens]

Hm. Anything in the error.log file? I'm wondering if there is a missing or extra bracket in a file that might be causing an issue with the game misreading them.

 

[MoralMonster]

Updating: I just tested this without any mods, and found out that the described situation is true only for one-state countries. For example, if Rio Grande de Sul occupies a Brazilian state, the occupation WE for Brazil is low, but if Brazil takes even 1% of Rio Grande de Sul state, the game thinks that 100% of this small country is occupied. So, this bug isn't that gamebreaking as it seemed first, but its still a bug. Is there a way to recalculate WE from occupation?

 

[CaesarVincens]

If the state isn't fully occupied, it shouldn't count at all for war exhaustion, at least according to the patch notes. I'd make a bug report if it's happening that way, especially with no mod in effect.