REQUEST: Intrigue Reveals Character Traits.

[Finnway]

Simple mod request; All traits are hidden (except the player character). Intrigue reveals traits slowly over time.

1. All traits are now hidden traits (easy to do, I know)
2. Intrigue is used to reveal other characters traits
3. Revealing traits tests your Intrigue rating vs other character's Intrigue rating.
4. Improve Relations and Build Spy-Network actions reveal traits faster.
5. Revealing traits happens faster for...
   1. Your spouse, immediate family members, and friends.
   2. Second fastest for characters in your court
   3. Third fastest for independent councilors, commanders, and your in-laws.
   4. Fourth fastest for your liege and direct vassals.

The idea is to make the player character more vulnerable to backstabbing. It prevents strategies like "This woman is envious, cruel, and deceiving? I'll never make her my third wife!"" and "This guy is ambitious and envious? He would make a terrible Spymaster." and "Hmm... let's see if I can find a Quick, Genius, or Strong character to be my spouse."


If this could be expanded to include AI characters' ambitions and their opinion of you that would be awesome.

If anyone could do this or advise me how to do it I'd appreciate it.

 

[MrKinich]

No idea how to hide opinion or ambition, but traits should be simple enough. If you want to reveal the traits gradually & not have a system of ‘any character who fulfills xyz conditions can see this trait’ then you would probably need to have every trait be hidden, with a custom flag for every trait. Ex, something like this:


is_visible = {
OR = {
character = FROM
has_character_flag = can_see_lustul_@FROM
}
}

Obviously replacing ‘lustful’ with the name of the trait.

Then you’d need to make an event that can reveal the traits to players; with mtth depending on intrigue, friendship, etc. You could either have 1 event/trait (would slow the game down, a lot, would allow faster discovery or traits), or 1 event with the trait it reveals being random (or maybe weighted random, ex, fertility traits easier to uncover for spouses, learning-boosting traits being easier to uncover for priests or court chaplains?); this shouldn’t slow the game as much but would make it take longer to uncover all a character’s traits.