capturing city/province scripting)

[Barca Payne]

hi

is it possible to script losing a city/province how I mean is like when hannibal when into italy, capua and other citys left them and sided with hannibal so I though it might be possible to do it but use a form of chance system to do it like enemy army gets beat city in that province has 0.2 chance of coming over to you're side and adding more chance occurrence like that

I've been wondering about this for a while posted it in a few places with no response and even had a go at it myself has it ever try to be done?

any response would be appreciated

[Aradan]

Moved to text Editing and Scripting.

[HouseOfHam]

It's possible, but "console_command control" has some nasty side effects, which make it impractical to use.

declare_counter factionIndex

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
          and I_TurnNumber = 666

    ; do this for all playable factions
    if FactionType = romans
        set_counter factionIndex 1
    end_if
    
    ; etc.
    
    if FactionType = blah
        set_counter factionIndex 20
    end_if
    
    
    console_command control carthage
    console_command capture_settlement SettlementName

    ; Restore control to the original faction
    ; do this for all playable factions
    if I_CompareCounter factionIndex = 1
        console_command control romans
    end_if
    
    ; etc.
    
    if I_CompareCounter factionIndex = 20
        console_command control blah
    end_if
    
    terminate_monitor    
end_monitor

[Barca Payne]

cool but what are the side effects and have you try getting around them?

[HouseOfHam]

1. The AI does not properly control player's old faction
2. All player settlements revert to auto-managed

JeromeGrasdyke (CA lead dev) posted a warning about using this command on .org some years ago.