Okay I think I understand what you mean friend but I've got a question or two if you don't mind answering
When you said over-ride with a set_government_type, where would I put that in? (Eg. The character folder, goverment folder, etc) Also just a quick question where is the character folder? I've been looking for the last 15 mins and have jad no luck. Thank you so much for all your help friend, its almost impossible find information about modding on the internet except here.
Ideally you
shouldn't use set_government_type unless you
must use it since that breaks on government validation (which happens relatively frequently; for example, any time a title changes hands the government for both the previous and the new holder is validated, and you don't want to use set_government_type every time that happens). set_government_type is mainly something you want to use if you want to make someone's government type change without waiting for normal validation or for debugging purposes.
As for the "character" folder, historical (pre-defined) characters are stored in \history\characters, but it's pretty unlikely that you'll need to go there to set up the government type (though depending on the implementation you might need to do work there).
What you
probably (without knowing the specifics I can't say for sure) should be doing is the following:
- Add your new government
last (if you've got multiple new ones, add them one after the other) in the relevant x_governments.txt file (e.g. feudal_governments.txt; which file it goes into affects checks such as "is_feudal = yes/no") in your mod's \common}governments folder.
- Update all (relevant) accepts_liege_government blocks to account for the new government.
- Update the potential block of all preceding government types in that file (and possibly also other files if that turns out to be necessary) that
aren't supposed to override your government type(s) to no longer be valid if your new government type is valid.
- Update anything using set_goverment_type to account for the new government and its conditions, if relevant.
- If you can become (in)eligible for your new government type in a way that doesn't cause validation (e.g. gaining/losing a trait), add a set_government_type (or several in if-blocks, if necessary) where relevant to force the government change.
