Shadow Countries

[RedNomNoms]

How do shadow countries work? For instance, the People's Republic of Poland is a shadow country of Poland. Does the PRP need its own .inc and ai or do you just put it with its own tag in the revolt.txt file and it will use Poland's? And what if I have a country that I want the base to be democrat, shadow to be communist, and the country to start out communist in the scenario? How would I pull that off. Any help would be fantastic.

 

[^_AC_^]

The are separate countries. The only link between them is that in revolt.txt the "shadow" countries have regular_id = TAG of "normal" country.

 

[RedNomNoms]

The are separate countries. The only link between them is that in revolt.txt the "shadow" countries have regular_id = TAG of "normal" country.

Am I missing the communist countries' .inc files in the scenarios' folders or do you not give it a .inc?

 

[^_AC_^]

Only countries that are there at the beginning of the scenario get an .inc file.

 

[RedNomNoms]

Only countries that are there at the beginning of the scenario get an .inc file.

Okay. Do I make an ai file for them?

 

[^_AC_^]

Yes, if you want, make one (or they'll load the default AI).

 

[RedNomNoms]

Where do I tell it which AI to load, or will it just load the AI that has its tag?

 

[^_AC_^]

Yes, use <TAG>.ai if I remember correctly.

 

[RedNomNoms]

Okay. If I want a country to be selectable that doesnt start in existence do I put it in the selectable field in the .eug?

 

[MartinBG]

Only countries that exist on scenario start must be set as selectable.

 

[RedNomNoms]

But in DH Full I can play as countries I liberate like the Arab Federation that didn't exist at the start.

 

[^_AC_^]

Countries that are created during the game become automatically selectable after you save and reload.

 

[RedNomNoms]

Thanks very much, this was very helpful.

 

[RedNomNoms]

When I start up the mod I am currently working on, it says "invalid ID's in inventions for [all countries names in their own message], check scenario file" or something along those lines. I don't see anything in the .eug files of DH Full that I am missing (besides the events and diplo, but I'm purposefully excluding those) in my .eug file, so what does it mean? What file am I suppose to check and/or how do I fix this?

 

[^_AC_^]

Check DH\savedebug.txt

 

[RedNomNoms]

Well I cut out the invention lines from all the countries in my mod. After reading the event commands file in modding documentation it told me inventions were one-time events (or something like that). I fixed the prOblem, but I'm still unsure what they are. And savedebug.txt just repeats the error message AI already saw.