My event doesnt work

[Cohacq]

I've been trying to make an event that annexes all chinese minor for NatChi, but I can't get the game to even register the change (the checksum doesnt change when i add it to hoi2.txt). Anyone got any ideas what may be wrong?

event = {
	id = 1000000
	random = yes
	country = CHI
	trigger = {
		ai = no
			}
	name = "Annex chinese minors"
	desc = "This event will annex all chinese minors for NatChi. Cheater."
	style = 0
	picture = "anchsluss"

		date = { day = 3 month = january year = 1936 }
		
	action_a = {
		name = "OK"
		command = { type = inherit which = CHC }
		command = { type = inherit which = CSX }
		command = { type = inherit which = CGX }
		command = { type = inherit which = SIK }
		command = { type = inherit which = CXB }

	
	}
}

 

[coreymas]

If you are triggering this manually through the console you dont need the following

You don't need the trigger at all
and set random to No

Also if you are running this on a machine on Vista or Windows 7 and you have installed this in c:\program files..... make sure you are modifying to right file (the one in the virtual store)

 

[Cohacq]

Removed the trigger and put Random to "No", but I still have the problem of the game not even recognicing that I have altered the game files (checksum doesnt change), so I still can't trigger the event.

I'm using Winxp btw.

 

[coreymas]

OH...

Put this new event in the Nationalist_china.txt file

 

[alufdufe]

There's nothing wrong with your event. I manually fired it on day 3 of the 41CG and CHI inherited the other cliques. You didn't include Yunnan. Was this intentional? My checksum didn't change either. It seems you created an event that doesn't change the checksum. I put it in the HOI2. txt and it worked fine.

EDIT: You put ai = no, so you have to be playing CHI for the event to work. I used WinXP.

ANOTHER EDIT: I would leave the random = no so it doen't fire accidentally.

 

[Cohacq]

I still can't get it to work, no matter if i put it in nationalist china.txt or hoi2.txt. This is really freaking wierd, as i've never had this problem.

alufdufe: excluding yunnan was a mistake, so it should be fixed.

 

[Gee]

I haven't played this game in a long time so i can't recall some event commands but i think the random shouldn't be yes.

 

[alufdufe]

I'm using Arma1.3beta2 vanilla on WinXP, but it should work on any vanilla version of HOI2.. I copy/pasted the event from the first post and put it as the last event in HOI2.txt. It worked in the 36,38,39,& 41 GC's playing as Nationalist China. It didn't work in 44 & 45 GC's, because 1 or more of the cliques were already gone. I got the "commandline A is invalid" message. It won't work if you're playing anyone other than CHI. You get the same command line error. I hit f12 and entered event 1000000 (6 zeros), to manually fire the event. If this doesn't give you the information you need, you're going to have to be a lot more specific about what you're doing.

 

[Cohacq]

I do it exactly as you are doing (pressing F12 to bring up the console and then triggering the event manually), But i still can't get it to trigger. Triggering events this way works perfect for other events.

 

[alufdufe]

It would help to know what version of the game you're using, with what mods. Are you getting an error message, or nothing at all when you try to fire your event?

Here's a test you can try. If you haven't already, put your event in the HOI2.txt file. Fire up the 36GC as Nationalist China. Manually trigger your event. If it doesn't work, try manually firing event 57. This is a US Gearing up event that's also in HOI2.txt, and it will fire regardless of what nation you are playing. If 57 fires, then you're problem is related to how you're installing your event. If 57 doesn't fire, then the game is ignoring HOI2.txt.

 

[Cohacq]

I tested 57, and it didn't work.

I'm using arma 1.3b, with SKIF, cold war tech tree extension, post-axis war mod and CCIP.

 

[alufdufe]

I finally found the post-axis-war mod. I got version 9.2b. Is there a later version? If so, where can I get it?

Anyway, back to your problem. You haven't said, but I'm assuming you don't get an error message when you try to manually fire events. Nothing happens, right? If so, then try firing events 900000+, these should be events from the post-axis mod. If you have a different version of the mod, check the P-Amod event file and use the correct numbers.

EDIT: When you play the game, are the regular events firing when they're supposed to?

 

[Cohacq]

All other events work as they are supposed to - will go try out post-axis war events now.

Tested event 90000 now, and it didnt trigger.

I guess there's something wrong with my install, so i'll try reinstalling.

edit: Using a clean 1.3b, i got it working correctly, so appearently something was wrong with my install!

 

[alufdufe]

I'm glad you got it sorted out. I added Yunnan to your event and it still didn't change the checksum, that's one stealthy event!

 

[Cohacq]

Yes, never seen anything that DIDNT change the checksum. That event would be nasty to use during MP matches if someone got the bright idea to cheat.

 

[alufdufe]

I thought maybe you had deleted/disabled db/events.txt by mistake when you were installing the post-axis mod. That would cause the game to jgnore the events, the symptoms would look the same as what you were describing. I had a similar thing happen with SMEP and the 45GC. The 45GC ignores a lot of the events, and if I tried to fire them manually, nothing happened.

Is 9.2b Arma the latest version of the post-axis mod?

 

[Cohacq]

Yes, 9.2 is the latest one, found it here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=311182