A way to add titles to characters

**Re Berengario I** · December 05, 2006, 09:57 PM

One of my modding idea was to get rid of the territorial factions and instead stick with the dinastic factions as they are more realistic in a medieval contest. If any of you have ever played Crusader Kings you can catch the concept.

So I needed to give to the faction leaders and other named characters the noble titles linked to the regions they own or rule.

So I made a test with Traits and Triggers.

I wrote a new trait:

Trait DukeVenice
Characters family

Level DogeVenice
Description DogeVenice_desc
EffectsDescription DogeVenice_effects_desc
Threshold 1

Effect Trading 5

And 2 linked triggers (these are just the ones for venice faction, unfortunately in this case you need to make one set for every faction as we're messing with faction leaders. Plus we can have different traits based on the culture/religion... Sultan of Venice comes soon to mind)

;------------------------------------------
Trigger isdogevenice_venice
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition CharFactionType venice
and IsFactionLeader
and I_SettlementOwner Venice = venice
and Trait DukeVenice <1

Affects DukeVenice 1 Chance 100

;------------------------------------------
Trigger isnodogevenice_venice
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart

Condition CharFactionType venice
and IsFactionLeader
and not I_SettlementOwner Venice = venice
and Trait DukeVenice =1

Affects DukeVenice -1 Chance 100

This is the result (which I am very happy with

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I'm still wondering how many things can modders link to titles..

**nightwar** · December 06, 2006, 05:50 AM

Nicely done Sir. I would like to know how to make a Trait to give command stars to all the AI generals.

**ocelot397** · December 06, 2006, 01:08 PM

This looks really good, are you going to do that for all the factions? Or are you going to leave that to us?:hmmm: (First time i've posted in ages by the way

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**Re Berengario I** · December 06, 2006, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by ocelot397

This looks really good, are you going to do that for all the factions? Or are you going to leave that to us?:hmmm:

I will do it for every faction and for every "kingdom" of my homebaked mod which will contain a lot of other modifications. If I will make it public in future will depend on the overall quality and playability of it (strictly linked to the time I will have to mess with it

).

I posted the code here so any other modder can use this tecnique (and of course it'll be nice to have some credits around as I will do with the big map of Spurius) plus maybe some other people can dig deeper and find some other uses from it. Sharing, brainstorming and testing is what will make the modding comunity stronger and stronger imho.

**Burebista** · December 06, 2006, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Re Berengario I

One of my modding idea was to get rid of the territorial factions and instead stick with the dinastic factions as they are more realistic in a medieval contest. If any of you have ever played Crusader Kings you can catch the concept

I'm still wondering how many things can modders link to titles..

Hi there,

I have a bit of a problem reproduceing this - can you pls detail the installation procces? Its like the game does not see my files and keeps takeing the original ones.

Thanks

**Voyager** · December 07, 2006, 02:56 PM

This is very interesting. I was wondering, since we can't assign faction heirs if we could use this as a workaround. Here's what I mean: Maybe make a title in the form of an ancillary for ?King? and ?Crowned Prince?, and make sure it is transferable. Then force the faction leader trait/faction heir trait (via triggers) to re-assign to whomever holds the title/ancillary.

This way you could assign who gets the top job, again.

Of course the only short fall may be that the new King would then need to join armies with the next user selected Crown Prince to pass off the Crown Prince title. But that may not be so bad, if you think of it in a sort of coronation way.

**ocelot397** · December 08, 2006, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Voyager

This is very interesting. I was wondering, since we can't assign faction heirs if we could use this as a workaround. Here's what I mean: Maybe make a title in the form of an ancillary for ?King? and ?Crowned Prince?, and make sure it is transferable. Then force the faction leader trait/faction heir trait (via triggers) to re-assign to whomever holds the title/ancillary.

This way you could assign who gets the top job, again.

Of course the only short fall may be that the new King would then need to join armies with the next user selected Crown Prince to pass off the Crown Prince title. But that may not be so bad, if you think of it in a sort of coronation way.

Wouldn't it be possible to just incorporate the heir choosing feature of RTW into M2TW? Or would that require more editing than I think?

**Re Berengario I** · December 08, 2006, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Burebista

Hi there,

I have a bit of a problem reproduceing this - can you pls detail the installation procces? Its like the game does not see my files and keeps takeing the original ones.

Thanks

Strange unless you're not using the mod switch which is a must if you're messing with custom content.

You also have to write the trait description (I didn't add that part but it's needed) and delete the bin so they can be recreated with the new stuff into.