Checking the ownership of a Settlement and setting kings purse

[AlphaDelta]

I'm trying to check the ownership of a settlement (London), and if it doesn't belong to the original owner (England), remove the kings purse. Can anyone see why this isn't working?

;;CHECK TO SEE IF THE PLAYER HAS LOST HIS CAPITAL (LONDON)
monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName London
           and FactionIsLocal
	if I_SettlementOwner London != england
		set_kings_purse england 0
	end_if
end_monitor

Cheers

[AlphaDelta]

Well I found my answer. set_kings_purse is Kingdoms only.

It's listed in M2TW Ultimate Docudemons 4.0 as being a command for Med2 1.2, I hadn't noticed that at the bottom of the commands section it has a heading "kingdoms commands".

Cheers

[Tsarsies]

Are you sure it's NOT working?

When you load up the campaign to test it are you playing as england and letting another faction take London, or are you loading up as say France and taking england...

whenever i test my scripts i always test as england and add this line to the script I'm testing

add_money England, 10000

That way if i receive the money, i know the script fired true. i would suggest adding that line inside the 'if' statement.

you also have the condition 'FactionIsLocal' which means it will only fire true if London belongs to the player, so you can not play as england to check if it works.

Try running the script without 'FactionIsLocal' and see if it works (or try 'not FactionIsLocal if you want to play as england and give it away). if it does then you know it will work with FactionIsLocal.

but add that line that gives England money (or whatever faction your testing with) to every script you test.

hope that helps, i realize my sentences seem to be all over the place in this post and i have no idea why

[AlphaDelta]

Hi,

This is the new code:

;;CHECK TO SEE IF THE PLAYER HAS LOST HIS CAPITAL (LONDON)
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType england
        and FactionIsLocal
	if I_SettlementOwner London != england
		console_command add_money england, -2500
	end_if
end_monitor

I'm testing it by letting London go rebel. It's working and is having the basic desired effect, but yes I am sure set_kings_purse doesn't work in MED2, only kingdoms.

If I change:

console command add_money england, -2500

to

set_kings_purse england 0

It breaks the script and nothing runs at all. Typing set_kings_purse england 0 in the console returns an error.

Cheers

[Azim]

I'm confused: are you using Kingdoms or not?

If you aren't using Kingdoms, then you are right, you should use an add_money command instead.

If you are using Kingdoms read this:

Identifier: set_kings_purse
Parameters: faction, amount
Description: Changes the money granted by the king's purse.
Sample use: set_kings_purse England 40000
Class: SET_KINGS_PURSE
Implemented: Yes
Author: Mark

I don't know if this is causing the error, but noticed how they captialized "England" while in your script England is in lowercase.

BTW, set_kings_purse isn't a console command, so it wont work in the console.

[GrnEyedDvl]

You are correct, that is a Kingdoms only command.

You should also note that when you check the status of London, you are not checking the status of his Capital, only the status of London because a faction can change its capital.

There is no condition to check the capital, but there is an event that checks when they change capitals. You cannot directly detect which settlement is the capital, but you can do it in a round about way. I never found it worthwhile, but I did figure out how to do it a while back.

You have to have a monitor for each region, and a character has to be close.

Assign a number to each settlement, I used the RegionID that you can get from using show_cursorstat.

monitor_event CharacterTurnEndedInSettlement SettlementName xxx
and DistanceCapital == 0
and FactionType england
set_event_counter england_capital xx (RegionID)


Then build a monitor for each settlement to do stuff with it.

monitor_event SettlementTurnEnd SettlementName xxx
and FactionType england
and I_EventCounter england_capital xx

do some stuff.