Script possible? After sacking/exterminating=downgrade of settlement

[Dark_Enlighter]

Hiya!


Coming back to Medieval II and Kingdoms after a couple of years.

I'm looking into modding my vanilla to tweak it my personal likings.

I tried to look for a script that downgrades the level of a settlement whenever it has been sacked/exterminated, e.g. Small city=> Large town, Fortress => Castle. My motivation behind this is to be able to apply "scorched earth" tactics in my campaigns. (And to see Paris to be humbled to the level of a pesky village )

Seeing i haven't found any of these scripts, I wonder if this would be hard-coded?


Thanks!

[QuintusSertorius]

Isn't there a hard-coded downgrade with Exterminate?

[Dark_Enlighter]

Isn't there a hard-coded downgrade with Exterminate?

That was true with RTW (1), IIRC. For MTW2 CA seems to have removed that action.

[QuintusSertorius]

There's definitely something that happens to wreck the infrastructure in a settlement on Exterminate in M2TW.

[Withwnar]

Extermination (and Sacking?) can destroy buildings. Settlements can't be downgraded ever, certainly not by script. Wish they could.

[Gigantus]

Core buildings are destruction (total removal) proof then? That's a pity - could do some cool stuff with that, turning a thriving metropolis into a base village with only a cathedral has something about it

[Withwnar]

You can script-destroy a core_building building but it doesn't affect the settlement size, therefore not the strat or battle models either.

[Gigantus]

I just tried that with BG - London still had it's wooden wall in the building list (bottom of UI).

	monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
		destroy_buildings england core_building true
		terminate_monitor
	end_monitor

[Withwnar]

You're right, it doesn't destroy them. Huh, I was sure I tried that, though long ago.

Nor these: mines, roads, farms. destroy_buildings can destroy hinterland buildings so that's not the reason. Rather, because they're hardcoded special buildings I reckon. Ports are too but they can be destroyed, although they can by normal means as well.

[Gigantus]

I'll subscribe to the 'hard coded special buildings' theory.

[Gebilde]

how about destroy and than rebuilding with a lower level

[Withwnar]

The can't be destroyed.

[QuintusSertorius]

The destroy_building command only works faction-wide in any case. It would destroy every instance of that building held by that faction, not just one in a targeted settlement.

[Dark_Enlighter]

I just tried that with BG - London still had it's wooden wall in the building list (bottom of UI).

    monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
        destroy_buildings england core_building true
        terminate_monitor
    end_monitor

Cool, thanks for trying. Is there maybe a replace command possible, instead of destroy? London, minor city, stone wall get's sacked => replace building of stone wall with Northern European Large wooden wall?

Just wondering