Looking for a trigger (number of transports)

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I'm trying to fire an event that triggers when a country, let's say Germany, has 5 transport divisions (ships for transporting divisions)
So after some testing...
transport = { country = GER value = 5 }
... or
transport = 5
... they both seem to trigger when a country has 5 or more convoys in pool, not transports.

 

[bosman]

Try this:
[transport] = { country = GER value = 5 }

It should work anyway, as info states, that "transport" is for transport ships, not convoys. Convoys are "transports"

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I did try what you suggested and it didn't work.
NOT = { transport = { country = GER value = 3 } }

Maybe if it's used with 'NOT' then it doesn't recognize the trigger?

 

[bosman]

Please show us entire event script.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

event = {
    id = 1000000
    random = no
    country = GER
    persistent = yes
    
    trigger = {
        NOT = {
            transport = {
                value = 3
            }
        }
    }

    name = "text a"
    desc = "text b"
    picture = "Germany_invaded"
    style = 0   
    
    date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
    offset = 1
    deathdate = { day = 29 month = december year = 1999 }

    action_a = {
        name = "text c"
        command = { type = add_division value = transport when = 0 }
    }
}

 

[bosman]

Which patch version are You using?

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

1.12 patch. Checksum is ok: XEAV

 

[bosman]

I tested it with 1.10 and it worked fine. With 1.12, as you supposed

Maybe if it's used with 'NOT' then it doesn't recognize the trigger?

.
This seems to be serious problem, when basic logic doesn't work.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I found out what was preventing the event to fire, so now it works as it should. Trigger didn't work because of those 9 transport ships in construction que (scenarios\1936\germany.inc). If construction of TPs is removed the event does fire. It seems that the code checks for not only what is already built but also for what is currently beeing built (construction que).

 

[bosman]

Whoa, indeed. Still it shouldn't work this way.

 

[Denniss]

ships under construction as well as dormant ships are counted as active for this trigger. Likely the same for land and air units

 

[bosman]

It's absolutely bad design. You can easily exploit this fact by simply adding units to production, then moving them at the end of the list. Eventually you might be surprised by a suuden event just because you put some units to production.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I reported this in bug forum and Pang said he used this trigger for building schemes of AI. Also did a quck scan and couldn't find such triggers in events that are meant to spawn to a player.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/trigger-for-number-of-units-bug-1-12.1447794/

 

[Denniss]

This was probably in from the vey beginning and upon changing the you will have a to alter/rebalance many AI files.