How to be able to choose the Heir when the Leader dies

**Greno Zee** · December 11, 2010, 02:55 PM

When the Leader dies, the game automatically chooses the new Heir. If you're not happy with the choice, you have to disinherit the Heir. While this certainly brings a level of realism and randomness to the game, in some mods you might want to get around this and allow the player to choose the new Heir themselves.
Here's the idea.

There are 2 new traits:

Potential Heir
Potentially Disinherited

The first time you switch the Heir, instead of disinherited the current Heir gets the Potentially Disinherited trait and the new Heir gets the Potential Heir trait and no effects are imposed on either. Now you can keep switching the heir title as you like.
Only when you end the turn, the situation is evaluated. If the Potentially Disinherited character is not the Heir at that moment, he becomes Disinherited and the Potential Heir gets the Heir title and benefits.

These are the modifications to the vanilla files, easy to adapt for any mod:

FILE: Data\export_descr_character_traits.txt
Add the following traits to this file.

Code:

;------------------------------------------
Trait Potentialexheir
    Characters family
    AntiTraits Potentialheir

    Level Potential_Exheir
        Description Potential_Exheir_desc
        EffectsDescription Potential_Exheir_effects_desc
        Threshold  1 

;------------------------------------------
Trait Potentialheir
    Characters family
    AntiTraits Potentialexheir

    Level Potential_Heir
        Description Potential_Heir_desc
        EffectsDescription Potential_Heir_effects_desc
        Threshold  1

Delete the folowing triggers:

factionleader
reinherited
disinherited
inherited
becomesheir

Add these triggers instead:

Code:

;These triggers are fired during the turn as traits travel
;The 4 following trigers deal with the situation when the leader dies and Heir becomes the new Leader
;------------------------------------------
Trigger factionleader
    WhenToTest BecomesFactionLeader

    Affects Factionleader  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
;Executes when a real Heir becomes Leader
Trigger inherited
    WhenToTest CeasedFactionHeir

    Condition IsFactionLeader
          and not Trait Potentialheir = 1

;   this effectively sets the Heir trait to 0
    Affects Exheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
;Executes when the potential Heir was also disinherited.
Trigger inherited_potentialheir
    WhenToTest CeasedFactionHeir

    Condition IsFactionLeader
          and Trait Potentialheir = 1
          and Trait Exheir = 1

    Affects Factionheir  1  Chance  100
    Affects Potentialexheir  1  Chance  100

;------------------------------------------
;Executes when the potential Heir becomes Leader
Trigger inherited_potentialheir
    WhenToTest CeasedFactionHeir

    Condition IsFactionLeader
          and Trait Potentialheir = 1

;   this effectively sets the Potentialheir trait to 0
    Affects Potentialexheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger potentially_disinherited
    WhenToTest CeasedFactionHeir

    Condition not IsFactionLeader

    Affects Potentialexheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger potentially_becomesheir
    WhenToTest BecomesFactionHeir

    Affects Potentialheir  1  Chance  100 

;==========================================
;turn end trigers to set potential trait to real ones
;------------------------------------------
Trigger reinherited_chte
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

    Condition Trait Exheir = 1
          and Trait Potentialheir = 1

    Affects Factionheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger becomesheir_chte
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

    Condition Trait Potentialheir = 1

    Affects Factionheir  1  Chance  100 
    Affects Potentialexheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger disinherited_chte
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

    Condition Trait Potentialexheir = 1

    Affects Exheir  2  Chance  100 
    Affects Potentialheir  1  Chance  100

FILE: Data\export_descr_VnVs_enums.txt
Add the following enums:

Code:

Potential_Heir
Potential_Heir_desc
Potential_Heir_effects_desc
Potential_Exheir
Potential_Exheir_desc
Potential_Exheir_effects_desc

FILE: Data\text\export_VnVs.txt
Add the following descriptions:

Code:

¬--------------------

{Potential_Heir}    Potential Heir

{Potential_Heir_desc}
This man will become the Heir at the end of the season.

{Potential_Heir_effects_desc}
No effects yet

¬--------------------

{Potential_Exheir}    Potentially Disinherited

{Potential_Exheir_desc}
This man is about to loose his heritage. If he doesn't regain the title Heir by the end of the season, he will become disinherited.

{Potential_Exheir_effects_desc}
No effects yet

Happy disinheriting!