Cost Scripting Question

[Doge]

Question for Repman or anyone who would know. I'm no scripting genius myself, but I wanted to know if this was possible:

The scripted costs in DLV (field costs, agent costs, priest costs, settlement growth balance cost) are great, they make the mod challenging and strategic. My pain was that they are hidden and hence difficult to predict as they don't show up in the economic view window. When the game gets more complex (many field armies, many settlements), it's impossible to do all the math in my head.

I was wondering if it's possible to replace these invisible costs with King's Purse adjustments. For example, in the campaign_script, the cost line

console_command add_money france, 500

would be replaced by the line

increment_kings_purse france 500

Then at the start of every turn ( monitor_event CharacterTurnStart TrueCondition ), the Purse would be reset to the constant value for the faction's King's Purse.

Functionally nothing would change, but all the DLV scripted costs would now flow into the "King's Purse" line in the Economic View, and thus all field costs, etc. would affect your bottom line and you could predict what would happen when you end your turn!

It's a thought, but I don't know if it would actually work.

Doge

[repman]

@Doge
I could make a popup (as the population ones) at the start of each turn showing approx. the extra money spent (field costs +settlement costs) during the last turn

repman

[Doge]

@Doge
I could make a popup (as the population ones) at the start of each turn showing approx. the extra money spent (field costs +settlement costs) during the last turn

repman

That's a cool idea. Though having to close 3 popups every turn may get annoying. Is it possible to make a single popup that shows:

-unit_index
-faction_index
-scripted costs

all at once? That would be cool, and might even offer the possibility of adding additional monitors for DLV-specific items to that same popup in the future.

Maybe some others on the community have an opinion on this?

Doge

[repman]

There are no variables in the script so i would have to cover:
unit_index x unit_index x scripted costs > 100000... possibilites