Religious perma-casus belli

[Kelvin]

I've been toying with an idea to make an event that would give a permanent (that is, until the conditions no longer apply) casus belli against a non-muslim owner of Meka and Medina, but (keep in mind that my modding skills are a teeny-tiny bit rusty :blush: ) I can't find an elegant solution.

So, is there a trigger that would be based on the religion of the of the owner? :blink:

 

[Third Angel]

I do not think you can do it with an event and maybe you do not need to. In Db\Map\provinces_special.txt, you can find these lines:

religious_cb = {
    religion = {
        province = 399 #Roma
        type = catholic
        owner = { PAP }
    }
}

I think you can script the same thing for Meka and Medina with sunni religion, though as I understand things you will have to list all muslim tags in the owner category and that may prove a bit tedious.

 

[Kelvin]

Yeah, I know that, that's why I said I can't find an elegant solution

I was hoping for something like this:

religion: sunni/shiite
owner of province(s) meka& medina NOT muslim

--> casus belli or casusbelliprovince

 

[Third Angel]

But in any case you can only give a casusbelli to the country receiving the event, so you would have to write an event for every single muslim country, even more tedious than writing a list of tags if you ask me.

 

[Kelvin]

Isn't there a way to make an event a persistent one, like the random events?

 

[ConjurerDragon]

Isn't there a way to make an event a persistent one, like the random events?

Sure, but that does not help you.

A random event could fire again and again - but no event can check that Mekkah is owned by a non-muslim AND give a CB to all muslim countries.
You would need more than one event to achieve that - so the permanent CB using the database seems the easier method to me:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?431786-Development-Diary-3-16th-of-September-2009

 

[Third Angel]

Indeed, trying to achieve what you want with events would be a total mess requiring tons of events.

A quick search through the scenario files shows that there are only 48 sunni countries in vanilla GC so it would be much easier this way:

religious_cb = {
    religion = {
        province = 497 #Medina
        type = sunni
        owner = { < 48 sunni tags > }
    }
}