Royal Ladies of the Court (RLC) for 6.4

[bɑne]

RLC Index

Փ-Features
Փ-Preview pictures of the royal ladies
Փ-Preview pictures of the royal court buildings
Փ-RLC Gameplay details
Փ-Credits
Փ-Download & Install (6.4 β)
Փ-Compatibility
Փ-Permissions

Features

• Princesses now recruitable as "Royal ladies" (acts just like any normal ingame princess)
• New unique strategy map models for the recruited princesses aka royal ladies
• New building "Royal Court" (only buildable in key locations and capitols, prebuilt only in beta)
• New unit "Royal envoy" (triggers recruitment, searches for the lady to join your court)
• New ancillary "Royal envoy" (envoy escorts the lady until she marries or dies)

Preview pictures of the royal ladies

Preview pictures of the royal court buildings

Current beta details

A royal envoy is beeing send out to bring a lady to the court ...



... and after 4 years (turns...) time a message informs us ...



... that the envoy discovered a suitable lady to bring to the court.



To give her the male voice of authority sometimes needed in medieval times ...



... he then joins her retinue further protecting her and the interests of the king ...



... and thus starts their journey ...

Credits (alphabetically)

• Amaranth-For originally proposing this idea.
• bane_tw-Developer
• Ishan-Developer
• Live2sculpt-For his keen interest in RLC.

Download 6.4 beta:

Royal Ladies of the Court Beta 09

Installation

Installation is pretty straightforward:

Download the attached file and extract it on your desktop

1. Move the extracted data folder into Medieval II Total War\mods\SS6.4
2. Confirm that you want to merge folders (don't worry, nothing gets replaced)
3. Run Medieval II Total War\mods\SS6.4\SS_setup.exe
4. Select your era of choice, Royal Ladies of the Court and any other submod you wish to use with it.

Note: You will need to start a new campaign in order for this to work

Compatibility

Standard (vanilla) 6.4 (and the versions above) and early / late campaigns.Not savegame-compatible.
If your ss_setup generates errors report your submod config here. Then simply rerun ss_setup without selecting this submod and wait for the fix

Permissions

To use RLC in some other mod please consult bane_tw or Ishan on their profiles via VM or PM not here.

History

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

After Ishans breakthrough in Marriage Proposals & Children - What about a Non-Family Princess he and I have decided to turn this into a fullfledged submod in order to add, as a minimum, recruitment of non-family princesses to the player while aiming to keep the impact on the campaign script as minimal as possible. Naturally this will go beyond the sample script below which is a mere proof of concept but just to show that yes, it is possible.

Original post by Ishan

To make the extra princess working in this game we have to do what i said in my earlier post & now i'm going to show u a simple spawn script that i used in my CS.

I put this:-

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType england
    and I_TurnNumber > 1
    spawn_character england, Anabella, princess, age 20, x 139, y 176
    console_command give_trait Anabella IAmPrincess 1
    console_command give_trait Anabella NaturalPrincess 1
    console_command give_trait Anabella GoodPrincess 1
    console_command give_trait Anabella PrettyWoman 1
    terminate_monitor
    end_monitor

We can use random_name also but then again we can't give traits to her. So Anabella pops up with this sample script after turn 1 at that random coordinate.

And the fun part is she is not even in the family tree and even if we try to add it with ",family" attrib in Spawn script it won't work as it's an agent type not a character but anyways here are the

Our Spawned Princess.

Not in the family tree like the way we wanted.

So a normal working princess without being included in the family tree and is ready to get married no heretic no witch concept but a simple spawn script.

To make this whole concept we could use a more complex script or make it recuitable by some more factors included if we want.
So if u guys are interested than i can work on it otherwise feel free to carry on further with this.

Hope this helps u guys, Gimme Five.

So let the above be a teaser for whats to come and know that we will be getting this feature to you as fast as possible

[bɑne]

As previously hinted the 6.4 rlc release has now its own topic. Please post any feedback / bugs / improvements for 6.4 there

The 6.2 version will most likely fall back in priority but won't be forgotten. Blank names should now be far less likely.

At the moment I can't comment on compatibility for other submods - I wrote everything as compatible as possible but you need to have a fresh (= clean) 6.4 install.

We will keep working on this in the coming weeks but for now we prefer to not have you wait any longer. Thanks for your patience and have fun

[Fair Prince]

Congrats on the new release bane & Ishan, and have some deserved rep for the nice work!

[Ishan]

Congrats on the new release bane & Ishan, and have some deserved rep for the nice work!

Thanks FP & just to point out v6.4 is a bit different from v6.2 it has more variations on the charm of princess, thanks to bane for that.

[Lugiahua]

All praise for Ishan and Bane!!!!

[vtec.dominion]

YOU ROCK!!!
THANKS A MILLION!

[Tyrael.]

This wayyyy tooo legit. You're awesome!

[Lugiahua]

I got something weird here, after I recruit the envoy, I got a company of archers instead of agent.

[Tyrael.]

wait...clean 6.4...does this mean it's not compatible with meneth's submod compiliation?

[betto]

just early campaign ?

[Ishan]

I got something weird here, after I recruit the envoy, I got a company of archers instead of agent.

You haven't installed it correctly. It replaces a lot of files so make sure you have disabled UAC and launch it with admin rights.

wait...clean 6.4...does this mean it's not compatible with meneth's submod compiliation?

No it's not compatible with MSC.

just early campaign ?

For now, an update will come for it within a week with late era etc.

[Lugiahua]

--never mind---

so do I give the file holder full control then rerun the setup?

[Ishan]

--never mind---

so do I give the file holder full control then rerun the setup?

Well bane is offline right now and i'm not aware of the setup thing. Gimme a few minutes i will make a custom installer on my PC.

Edit:-
Installer updated check the opening post (download it from TWC).
I have checked the installer and it works in game, however i did all this in minutes so there might be some file or entry i might have missed but i doubt it, please let me know if something is wrong.

[StupidAlarmClockGuy]

Awesome! I'm holding out for the Late Era one, but this is still a great development.

+Rep!

[Ishan]

Awesome! I'm holding out for the Late Era one, but this is still a great development.

I can provide the files for late era right now but most of the users will screw their installations with early\late thingy.

[Lugiahua]

mine is working now, just realized that you can only recruit in Capital
(by the way, what if I changed capital?)

the only minor problem is sometimes I got nameless character.

[Dalthius]

Might want to put in the first post that the mod is incompatible with MSC, as a lot of folks use that.

...now I gotta figure out how to fix my installation. Doh!!

[Ishan]

mine is working now, just realized that you can only recruit in Capital
(by the way, what if I changed capital?)

the only minor problem is sometimes I got nameless character.

Yes one can recruit it in capitals only and no the settlement for recruitment remains permanent that is whatever was the default capital history wise. Earlier the blank name bug was almost 80% but we have reduced it to 10% now, it happens in vanilla too so there is nothing we can do about it but there is a workaround we are working on to remedy this.
It doesn't have any side effects btw.

Might want to put in the first post that the mod is incompatible with MSC, as a lot of folks use that.

...now I gotta figure out how to fix my installation. Doh!!

MSC is a submod it's not a main part of SS base install so that's not my problem.

[Dalthius]

MSC is a submod it's not a main part of SS base install so that's not my problem.

Wow, nice guy.

I'm simply saying that MSC is a very common submod and it would be a nice courtesy to let folks know it's not compatible, thus avoiding a lot of conflicts and potentially ruined games. At no point was I inferring anything negative about your mod, I've been looking forward to using it. Ease up, eh?

[Lugiahua]

just wondering, is it possible to use cheat on nameless characters? like do they have a number or something?
(they must have some tag so system recognized them, right?)