[MOD] VIET Events Reborn - a reboot of the flavor event mod

cybrxkhan · Dec 25, 2018

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Current Version: 2.0.15 “Scarborough Fair” (Released 8/30/20, Compatible with Patch 3.X and Holy Fury)

Scarborough was an important trade entrepot for the Kingdom of England in medieval times. It hosted the great Scarborough Fair, a major trading event that attracted merchants and travelers from as far away as the Byzantine Empire. Later on, it would feature in one of the most famous English folk ballads, also called “Scarborough Fair.” In the traditional lyrics of this song, the singer tells his or her ex-lover through an intermediary that if they wish to become lovers again, they must accomplish a series of impossible tasks such as washing a shirt in a well where water has never sprung nor rain never fell. The opening refrain of the song is thus:

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Hello all! As of 8/30/20, I have uploaded my last official update for VIET and will no longer release any further updates (barring major bugs or issues), as I will now be moving to CK3.

I want to thank all for your support over these many past years, whether you’re one of the original VIETerans who’ve played my mods I first started modding or you’ve just found out about my mods. For those who don’t know, I modded CK2 on and off since August of 2012 - literally 8 years - and began work on the old version of VIET later of 2012, so it’s been a long journey that intersected with some of the most interesting times in my life, both good and bad.

For those who will stick with CK2, I hope you will continue to enjoy the “final” versions of my mods for a long time. For those who will move onto CK3, I intend to start work on a VIET equivalent for CK3 called Events About Simple Things (EAST, since I like dumb acronyms) - after I play some CK3 first and have fun with it, of course.

I wish to thank everyone who’s helped and supported my mod work over the years, whether you worked with me directly, provided me with improvements to my codework or helped me maintain it, or simply just enjoyed playing my mods. Thanks again all for your support, and enjoy, as always!

- cybrxkhan

Hello everyone, I’m back!

VIET Events Reborn is the reboot of the Events module from the Vanilla Events, Immersion, and Traits mod I created over six years ago before I retired three years back. Features include:

Lots of new flavor events and event chains that add immersion and a diversity of experiences to your playthroughs, ranging from small talk with courtiers and eating local cuisine to epic tales about love, philosophy, and the human condition.
Game rules to disable sillier events for those who don't like them, with three levels to choose from: Balanced (Default), Serious (Restricted), and Silly (Full).
New artifacts to collect and nicknames to acquire from these events.
Plenty of new event pictures, including cultural and religious variants of vanilla event pictures
Performance tweaks and miscellaneous improvements over the old VIET Events (many courtesy of the WTWSMS, LI, and Hide Your Jewelry mod teams)
Compatibility with almost everything since it doesn’t touch any vanilla files
French translation available (credits to Loup99, Mouchi, and Domper59)
NOT ACHIEVEMENT COMPATIBLE

At the moment, the reboot does not include all of the original events. To not overwhelm myself, what I want to do is slowly add the old events in batches so I can fix, tweak, or remove them as I see fit, while also adding in new events for variety. Any input with balance and bugs is much appreciated as I slowly bring VIET back to life! In particular I am still trying to determine a right balance in how often these events fire.

Please feel free to use my work in your mods, all I ask is that I and my old VIET partner Ordep are credited. If you want to use something that I borrowed from someone else, please see the credits section below.

I will also not be rebooting Immersion or Traits at this time, though my Immersion Packs are a spiritual successor to VIET Immersion, so feel free to check out Cybrxkhan's Immersion Packs, which are a smaller scale, more modular spiritual successor to VIET Immersion.

SCREENSHOTS

CREDITS

A huge thanks to the teams of WTWSMS (especially ILikeTrians and Loup99) and Lux Invicta (including tsf4), as well as M@ni@c, creator of Hide Your Jewelry, for maintaining VIET these past few years and who I reached out to. The improvements these modders did to my old code have formed the basis for this reboot of VIET Events. ILikeTrains has been particularly helpful in catching some issues, and helping me adjust back to CKII modding. The French translation of much of the mod is thanks to Loup99, Mouchi, and Domper59.

Additional credits goes to theStormWeaver who I worked with every now and then during my retirement to add some flavor events to the Ancient Religions Reborn mod, and the inspiration for naming updates after people and stuff.

I also of course want to give big credits to the HIP team, whom I worked with for some time before I retired - in particular OrdepNM, who was in many ways my partner in crime and who stepped up to help maintain my mod while I was having serious medical issues a while back.

Additionally, please also see here for the credits from the original VIET mod, as there are a lot of people who I worked with and took stuff from over the years, and though much of their work isn’t in VIET Events, I still feel it proper to give them a shout out:

Additionally, there are a few modders and VIET players who have contributed significantly to VIET - not just a few bug reports or some assistance here and there, but significant amounts of content for the mod itself. As such, though they are not officially part of VIET, I'd like to honor them as important contributors to the mod as well:

- Sleight of Hand - for random code all over the place (not to mention I wouldn't even be a CKII modder without him!)

- jordarkelf - for various mini-mods, and tweaks to history, flavor, titles, as well as bug hunting and fixing

- AnaxXiphos - for a lot of beautifully done artwork, including but not limited to trait, decision, and religion icons

- superskierpat - for many culture-unique title localizations, many featured in uses HKC mini-mod, as well as other code

However, a lot of material have been taken from other modders and community members. Below I've listed everyone who's contributed something to this mod in one way or another, directly or indirectly. The list continues to expand as VIET get more and more feedback and suggestions, and integrates parts of other mods and mini-mods. If you believe you haven’t been properly credited for something, don’t hesitate to (gently) remind me!

Thanks again to everyone who’s helped made this mod the success it is!

- Meneth for Project Balance, various things I borrowed from it (including particularly the melting pot), and for helping me learn how to implement the “less is more” philosophy (which I always struggled with in my pre-CKII modding)

- Sleight of Hand for implementation of the Berber, Bulgar, and Nubian cultures in his SoH mod, the Danish Invasion mod, various improved name lists, and other tweaks in general, as well as general assistance and cooperation in modding and improving historical accuracy/plausibility, and also for getting me into real modding in the first place by forcing me to do CPR

- jordarkelf for the various mini-mods integrated, too many to name here; feedback and suggestions; as well as general assistance in all aspects of modding and bug hunting

- richvh for feedback, help, and bug hunting

- childeR for Byzantine claim event

- AUTOMATIC for a better congenital trait icon template and the missing COAs mod

- DominusNovus, Gnostiko, and Hawkeye1489 for info on Byzantine titles

- StonetheCrow for teaching me how combining character graphics was possible in the first place, and Shaytana and CrackedToothGrin in turn for showing him the tricks

- Zaldax for the Sicilian name list and melting pot event from “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”, as well as several flavor events

- Bloodmerchant, Ataulf, Chlodio, duinnin, Frostschaden, PolskaGOLA, and the Umbra Spherae team for various name lists

- Trashed for the Memento Mori mod

- Teutonic Thrash and Birdboy for the Icelandic Commonwealth mod

- Werewhale for stuff taken from the "Dorrit Moussaief's Iceland is the Most Biggest Country in the World" Mod

- GeorgAfLöfbacka for the Mediterranean Ladies Beautified mod

- Greek Strategos for constant feedback and suggestions, as well as for gifting me the Norse portrait set - thanks!

- theStormWeaver for gifting me TOG - thanks, saved me quite a bit there!

- superskierpat for several title localizations from the "High Kings, Consuls, and other Crazy Things" mod

- Polskers for feedback, bughunting, and Saxon names

- chatnoir17 for the Koppen Climate Classification mod

- chemical_art for bughunting and feedback

- Riknap for the Republic Trade Events income-scaled and attribute-weighted mini-mod

- EmperorTojo for coding assistance particularly in regards to the Norse-Gaels

- Pesco77 for the Finno-Ugric mod series

- Skefrep for the Age Customizer mini-mod

- JGCrusader and ZachPruckowski for Additional Objectives 2.0

- Jorlem for the Decadence Breakup mini-mod

- Avee for the Family Relations mini-mod

- Frostschaden for the "Judaism - The Diaspora, the Exilarchs and the Khazars" mod

- mclemente for the Latinokratia mod

- Peuri for the Cuman portrait set from the Little Portrait mini-mod

- Maestro Ugo and Thure for the Mazdayasna Zarathushtrish mod

- AnaxXiphos for various new artwork including the Alternate Portraits for Mongol Children mini-mod and assistance with the Jewish building code

- Syren for Syren's Nickname mod

- Thure for various namelists and the Hamburg Republic mini-mod

- Crackedtoothgrin for portrait art

- Lux Invicta team and Shaytana for portrait art

- ahhheygao for the Retouched Mongolian Eyes mini-mod

- SBolshevik for various mini-mods and other assistance and suggestions

- kleiner for bug hunting

- hooni for the pledge mod

- The_Chancellor for the council shuffling mini-mod

- Gnostiko, Aeon221, Fairleystuff, Crak'd, Bertouch, User29, sainturl for feedback and suggestions

- Wikipedia for the loads of information (whether reliable or not)

- Richvh, fawr, Meneth, StonetheCrow, korbah, and the countless others who answered all my random and silly modding questions

- Everyone else for their feedback and suggestions as well as support for this mod and my other mods - thanks!

Also, credits go to these artists I took artwork from:

Anthony Wolff - http://www.waart.net/artwork/artwork_digital.html

Glazyrin - http://glazyrin.deviantart.com/

Crackedtoothgrin - http://crackdtoothgrin.deviantart.com/

Other mods and mini-mods integrated currently or formerly, fully or partially into VIET, or that have elements and/or ideas borrowed from:

cybrxkhan · Jan 2, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.1 "DAWN" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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“Every quarter has known us, and none bore our passing except with trembling. Perhaps you came to us through war, or study, or shadow, or the alignment of certain snakes. Though each path matters in its kind, the prize is always thus: welcome, novitiate, that you are here at all means that you have the worthiness of kings. Seek thy pocket now, and look! There is the first key, glinting with the light of a new dawn.”

Merry New Year to everyone, and with it brings a new update for VIET: version 2.0.1 “Dawn,” which adds around 100 events, some new ones and some pulled from old VIET Events (including a few VIETeran favorites). There are other major improvements too:

VIET Events game rule is now at the top of the game rules section for better visibility (credits to Mouchi)
Some VIET events will now affect decadence for Muslim characters as well as a province’s prosperity
A few new death types

Any input with balance and bugs is much appreciated as I reboot VIET. In particular I am still determining a right balance in how often these events fire. Here's the changelog:

Added 12 events inspired by TES IV Oblivion’s soundtrack
Added 8 Sun themed events
Added 17 Prophecy and Future themed events
Added new event chain: Oblivion (will be disabled with “Serious” game rule due to references)
Re-added the following events from old VIET: 9 Muslim, 7 Drink and Alcohol, 4 Elder Scrolls references, 5 Dirty, 3 Nature, 7 Dream, 7 Vegetables, 3 Water, 6 Bitter, 5 Eggs, 3 Dulcinian*
Re-added the following event chains from old VIET: Toothbrushing Siblings, Burnt Bread, and Succubus (first one will only appear with “All Events” game rule)
Several VIET province events will now increase or decrease prosperity in said province
Several VIET events will now lower or raise decadence for Muslim characters
Added some additional French localizations, courtesy of loup99, Mouchi, and Domper59 (some isn’t completed yet but will be finished in the next update!)
Added new deaths: Choked to death on food, Stung by Scorpion, Found Mysteriously Dead on Bed
Added several new scripted triggers for efficiency: is_sinosphere_small_trigger, is_sinosphere_large_trigger, is_baklava_culture_trigger, is_hummus_culture_trigger
VIET Events rule is now at the top of the game rules section for better visibility, and changed the text and color somewhat - credits to Mouchi
Added some new event pictures
Replaced the Greek and Italian food event pictures
Zoroastrian incest event now disabled with Serious game rule
“Who Cut the Cheese” event now only enabled with “All Events” game rule
Changed Trade Value effects of Bridge Collapse and Haunted Ship to be more in line with vanilla modifiers
Ancient Pottery artifact now gives +1 learning
Fixed Pistachio event having “Send emergency resources immediately!” option
Other misc bug and localization fixes, many courtesy of IHateTrains

*No actual Dulcinian heresy from the old VIET Imemrsion added. Based on the WTWSMS version, some of the old Dulcinian flavor events have been adapted to other religions and heresies as appropriate.

And some screenshots of the stuff that has been added to this update, both old and new:

(Yes, that is a meta pun on Sun)

For those worried about the blatant TES references, fear not - those will be disabled if you choose the Serious game option; Balanced will disable the more blatant ones.

Arko said:
The West Africa part is likely unecessary now. The author maybe added it before we even got Mali in the game.

Hello old friend! Good to see you around

Mouchi said:
Sorry cybrxkhan, I have forgotten to mention it.

Ok, I will merge the 5 translated file by Domper59 not merged yet, and continue to translate the new content in French.
Merry New Year !

Merry New Year to you too! And thank you to you guys for working so hard on the French translation!

cybrxkhan · Jan 8, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.2 "DUSK" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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"Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."
- J.R.R. Tolkien””

New update up. It is smaller compared to the last two, but includes about 50 more events, both new and those from old VIET. Next update will likely be much bigger and includes more stuff.

Also, for those using the manual GitHub download, I've changed how it works slightly - the link will now re-direct you to the release page where you can find a .zip file to download. Thanks to Mouchi for pointing out to me that GitHub had such a feature.

And, again, any input with balance and bugs is much appreciated as I reboot VIET.

Lastly, here's the changelog for 2.0.2:

Added 15 Night themed events
Added 10 Shadow themed events
Re-added the following events from old VIET: 5 bad, 5 bug, 5 old age
Changed ancient pottery event from a province event to a character event fired from on actions, to decrease its frequency
Commented out references in old VIET Traits in code
Fixed Large Antiquity shrine event referring to the province’s religion, not the owner’s religion

And some screenshots of the stuff added to this update, old and new:

LordDamien said:
I absolutely love this mod. Keep up the great work!

Thank you!

Kaunaz said:
Loving having VIET Events again, and better than ever!

I think the frequency of the events that add artifacts could be reduced. As it is, I'm seeing artifacts like ancient pottery virtually everywhere, and sometimes AI will even have multiple of them. When raiding, I end up looting ones that give +stats a lot of the time without even looking.

Thanks for the heads up! I think the ancient pottery event was especially guilty of this since it was the only artifact event that was a MTTH-based province event, rather than a character event called through on_actions like the others. In the next update, which will be themed around artifacts and such, I am planning some further tweaks to reduce artifact spam hopefully, including but not limited to random events that remove/destroy these clutter artifacts (as I call them), changes to the likelihood of the events happening, etc.

jerald said:
Its amazing that your back. The Mod, and the events, are amazing. I loved playing your original mod.

Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to restore most of the original stuff eventually

cybrxkhan · Jan 21, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.3 "SHEN KUO" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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Shen Kuo was a Chinese polymath, scholar, and official of the Song Dynasty. Among his many achievements in various fields, he developed an academically rigorous approach to archaeology and history for his time.

New update up, with ~100 more events, both new from old VIET! The main additions are new artifacts and tweaks to how VIET’s artifacts work. The two biggest changes are that 1) most of VIET’s artifacts are now in a “clutter” slot, and you can only equip 3 at a time; and 2) there are now events where you could potentially lose clutter artifacts.

As always, feedback on balance and frequency of events is appreciated; I’m especially looking for feedback on how often clutter artifacts pop up, as besides the potential to lose them, I coded other tweaks to reduce OP artifact spam as some have reported. I will continue to tweak the frequency of artifact gain and loss in future updates as I've already gotten some feedback on that.

And here's the 2.0.3 changelog:

Added 11 Ancient Culture themed events
Added 12 Clutter themed events (to gain even more useless clutter!)
Added 29 events to lose artifacts added in VIET Events - these fire on a separate on_actions and are fairly rare (though will be a little more common for characters with more than three VIET artifacts)
Re-added the following 41 events from old VIET: 7 Ancient Cultures, 9 Sound, 3 Prayer, 9 Memories, 5 Shady, and 8 Comet Events
Re-added event chains: Minotaur and Tarim Basin Scrolls
Added “Clutter” slot in player inventory for the miscellaneous VIET artifacts. Players are now limited to “equipping” three of these at a time, to prevent stacking a crap ton of bonuses.
Added many new clutter artifacts, including some ancient artifacts
Events to gain or lose VIET artifacts are now in a separate on_actions - will still need testing to tweak frequency
Added flags to VIET artifacts
Reduced frequency of VIET artifact events
Reduced chances of getting VIET artifacts if character already has one (via scripted trigger)
Reduced severity of revolt risk for several modifiers
Nutcracker and Hourglass artifact events now moved to the Five year on_actions pulse (where almost all the other clutter artifact events were)
Israelite/Jewish cultures now also count for is_baklava_culture_trigger
Fixed Mysterious Colors, Famous Bard, and Haunted Ship event modifiers giving global revolt risk instead of local revolt risk
Fixed Calipers and Abacus artifact events being able to fire if character already owns them
Fixed event where you go to the ocean at night firing if your capital isn’t coastal
Other miscellaneous fixes

And screenshots of the new stuff in the update:

das said:
Would this mod work with a random world, by the way?

It should work fine. However, now that you bring that up, I've realized a number of the events that are religion/culture/region specific wouldn't make sense with random world, so I'll have to account for that.

manble1234 said:
Greetings, @cybrxkhan! I hope you are having a good day
I have one question: Is this mod compatible with Ancient Religions Reborn?

I got a long weekend so I can't complain.

Anyways, running with Ancient Religions should be fine. I've contributed some stuff to that but none which should conflict with VIET atm, the mod is designed to work even with major overhauls in theory.

cybrxkhan · May 5, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.4 "HERACLIUS" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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Heraclius was Roman Emperor from 610 to 641 CE, and ruled during an important, transitionary period in the history of the Empire. During his reign, the Romans finally defeated their ancient nemesis, the Persians, only to lose many of their gains to the rising Arabian Caliphate. He was also responsible for reorganizing the Empire and his reforms, such as changing the official language of the Empire from Latin to Greek.

I’ve been busy with real life among other things these past three months, but I’ve finally found time to upload another update. In honor of Imperator’s recent release, this version of VIET is called “Heraclius.” It doesn’t actually really have a lot of Roman-related flavor, I just wanted to use a Roman name to be cool.

Besides new events and additions, there are a couple other important changes and tweaks. First, VIET’s clutter artifacts can no longer be stacked, for a little less spam. Second, certain events will no longer fire in random worlds for obvious reasons.

No idea when the next update will come (though it's quite tempting for me to get it in something by May 29) but as always, your feedback is welcome.

And here's the 2.0.4 changelog:

Added 35 Spices themed events
Added 13 Skyrim dialogue inspired events
Added 13 Rose themed events
Added 3 Deer Musk themed events
Added new artifacts: Mythical Creature’s Bone (Dinosaur Bone)
Added a few more event pics
Re-added events from old VIET: 6 Curry, 9 Rocks and Minerals, 10 Urine, 5 Monogatari references
All VIET clutter artifacts can no longer be stacked
Some culture/religion/region-specific events will no longer fire in random worlds for obvious reasons
Ancient artifacts now have an “unknown” creation date, for more immersion
Dance with the Dead event chain can now happen to Latin, Iberian, and Celtic culture groups, or those in the Western European region, as well
Nutcracker artifact no longer limited to Christians
Pistachio event can now also happen in Asia Minor
Readjusted the likelihood of getting events and event chains, particularly the rarer ones on the five and ten year pulses
Incestuous runaways event will no longer fire for reformed pagans that have the divine marriage doctrine
Children under 13, as well as Celibate, Chaste, and Eunuch characters, can no longer respond a little too positively to the good whores province event
Fixed a couple childhood events giving Conclave childhood traits for those who don’t own the Conclave DLC
Fixed VIETnam.85 not triggering

And screenshots of the new stuff in the update:

cybrxkhan · May 13, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.5 "BROCCOLI" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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Remember to eat your veggies!

New version up. This is just a minor update to fix a few bugs, mainly the creepy Rose letter event that may have been triggering too much for some of you, which I felt was important enough to warrant an update like this one. I’ll see if I can have another minor next weekend after the new patch rolls around.

As a side note, my internet dropped in the middle of uploading this update, so I had to re-upload again, and on top of that Steam Workshop was derping out on me and refusing to update the mod and I had to try uploading it several times, so do tell me if you notice any irregularities that might’ve been caused by the mod not uploading properly.

And here's the 2.0.5 changelog:

Added 3 broccoli flavored events
Added 6 virginity related events
Added a couple of Tibetan event pictures
Re-added the following events from old VIET: 4 furniture events
Increased Heartless Villain opinion malus
Rose tea event now gives a “Rose Tea” modifier (to be consistent with other herbal tea events)
Poetic Guardsman modifier now gives a slight bonus to combat skill
Fixed Musk Deer product event not properly referencing regions
Fixed creepy Rose letter event triggering too often
Fixed Auriel’s Ascension event from triggering when province is different religion than ruler

And a couple screenshots of new stuff from the update:

cybrxkhan · May 19, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.6 "IBN SIRIN" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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Ibn Sirin was a Muslim mystic from the late 7th and early 8th century, who was supposedly well-versed in the art of dream interpretation. The Great Book of Interpretation of Dreams is attributed to him, though he supposedly never liked books and reading much, believing that memorizing things and not relying on texts was superior.

Just uploaded a new update to go along with the new vanilla patch. Nothing too major, though one thing to note is that courtiers generated via VIET’s events now have a very small chance of appearing with artifacts for flavor. As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues. I’m planning the next update for May 29, for meme reasons.

And the 2.0.6 changelog:

Added 24 strange dream events
Re-added 12 TES inspired events from old VIET
Added new artifact: The Lusty [Culture] Maid
Military courtiers generated via events now have a small chance of appearing with military artifacts
Some courtiers generated via events now have a small chance of appearing with clutter artifacts
Miscellaneous bug fixes and tweaks as usual

And a couple screenshots of new stuff from the update:

cybrxkhan · May 30, 2019

VIET EVENTS 2.0.7 "CONSTANTINE XI PALAIOLOGOS" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
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“The city is fallen but I am still alive!”
- Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Roman Emperor, at the siege of Constantinople in 1453 CE

Just a small update to go along with Iron Century. A little bit of Byzantine related flavor because today’s the Fall of Constantinople, and a bit of Three Kingdoms related flavor because Total War Three Kingdoms was just released and it’s actually pretty good and helps me relive my childhood. Highly recommend it, it's probably the first Total War game I can say I've really enjoyed since I jumped ship to PI.

Anyways, let me know if you have any issues.

Here's the 2.0.7 changelog:

Added 3 Constantinople themed events
Added 8 Three Kingdoms themed events
Added new artifact: Statue of Guan Yu
Re-added events from old VIET: 9 Byzantine
Misc minor bug and typo fixes