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    Default All my governors become "The mean"

    I searched for "the mean" in all forums, nothing came up (what am I doing wrong?)

    But anyway, nearly all my city governors have gotten the "miserly" trait and the epiteth "the mean". Is is because of very high taxes?
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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Yes.
    Edit: miserly seems to be because of you being often under siege.
    Code:
    Trigger undersiege
     WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    
     Condition IsUnderSiege
           and IsGeneral
    
     Affects Miserly 1 Chance 20

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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Excuse me and pretty please. Could someone show us the affects of this trait. Okay being under seige is stressful so I'm assuming this is a bad line of triats.

    Once Miserly, will this trait get worse no matter what you do?
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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Quote Originally Posted by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze View Post
    Excuse me and pretty please. Could someone show us the affects of this trait. Okay being under seige is stressful so I'm assuming this is a bad line of triats.

    Once Miserly, will this trait get worse no matter what you do?
    Code:
    Trait Miserly
     Characters family
     NoGoingBackLevel 2
     AntiTraits Generous
    
     Level Mean_with_Money
       Description Mean_with_Money_desc
       EffectsDescription Mean_with_Money_effects_desc
       Threshold 1
    
       Effect TaxCollection 2
       Effect Squalor 1
    
     Level Hoarder_of_Wealth
       Description Hoarder_of_Wealth_desc
       EffectsDescription Hoarder_of_Wealth_effects_desc
       Threshold 2
    
       Effect Trading 2
       Effect TaxCollection 5
       Effect Squalor 2
    
     Level Miserly
       Description Miserly_desc
       EffectsDescription Miserly_effects_desc
       Epithet Miserly_epithet_desc
       Threshold 4
    
       Effect Trading 5
       Effect TaxCollection 10
       Effect Squalor 3
    Yes, if it gets to level 2, Hoarder of Wealth, you're screwed.

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    That is an incredibly stupid trigger - he becomes greedy because he's often under siege??
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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Money/food/resources is tight during a siege. Therefore, he easily becomes too cautious with money/resources.

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    I have an old crusader general defending Iconium against wave after wave of Fatimids. he has almost maxed out everything, an amazing chivalrous knight and ultimate general - yet he's known as the miserly
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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Break the siege on the first turn, then it'll never trigger.

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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Quote Originally Posted by Meneth View Post
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    Yes, if it gets to level 2, Hoarder of Wealth, you're screwed.

    You said "if", so how does one stop this nightmare? Taxes to low + infinity?

    Thanks again for the script print btw...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Meneth View Post
    Money/food/resources is tight during a siege. Therefore, he easily becomes too cautious with money/resources.

    Why doesn't he become better at using resources efficiently instead? We can always explain something so that it makes some kind of sense, but this one doesn't in my view ..
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    Actually, the anti-trait, Generous, seems to have no triggers except random birth, generous/miserly dad, and self perpetuating.

    Quote Originally Posted by SirRobin View Post
    Why doesn't he become better at using resources efficiently instead? We can always explain something so that it makes some kind of sense, but this one doesn't in my view ..
    Who knows?
    I could add a chance for it to trigger GoodAdministrator too, I guess...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirRobin View Post
    I searched for "the mean" in all forums, nothing came up (what am I doing wrong?)

    But anyway, nearly all my city governors have gotten the "miserly" trait and the epiteth "the mean". Is is because of very high taxes?
    Quote Originally Posted by SirRobin View Post
    Btw: running SS 6.2, RR, no submods.

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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    The triggers for RR/RC might be different, I have no idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirRobin View Post
    Btw: running SS 6.2, RR, no submods.
    For future reference: You need to specify your mod version else it is assumed that you are using 6.3 when you post without any such info in the main forum
    Quote Originally Posted by Meneth View Post
    The triggers for RR/RC might be different, I have no idea.

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    Recruiting spies and assassins is the quickest way to get a mean governor, no matter if your taxes are low or high.
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    Default Re: All my governors become "The mean"

    Quote Originally Posted by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze View Post
    You said "if", so how does one stop this nightmare? Taxes to low + infinity?

    Thanks again for the script print btw...
    You have to pay attention to the thresholds (thresholds refer to amounts of trait points granted by triggers). For example:
    Code:
    Trigger undersiege
     WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    
     Condition IsUnderSiege
           and IsGeneral
    
     Affects Miserly 1 Chance 20
    This means that each time undersiege you have 20% (*note I've lowered my %'es so yours might be higher) of gaining one point (or threshold) in Miserly.



    Unfortunately the trait is self perpetuating:
    Code:
    Trigger selfperpetuating26
     WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    
     Condition Trait Miserly >= 1
    
     Affects Miserly 1 Chance 1
    As you can see again I've changed my chance to gaining 1 threshold of Miserly to 1% (this might seem very low, but think about it, if you're playing the game over 100 turns there is still a good chance you will accumulate some thresholds). My point is you should look into lowering this value also, as original value is much higher.

    edit: I am using SS 6.3
    Last edited by Stario; December 06, 2010 at 10:49 AM.

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    hilarious stuff!

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