Religion Points Script

[Augustus Lucifer]

This script is supposed to check for a building being created or destroyed in a settlement of religious nature, then add to a counter depending on which faction is controlling it and which building it is. Should also account for the counter being reduced when a building is destroyed, by the number it increases the counter plus its predecessors. This counter is then used to create/destroy buildings that can impact religious conversion to a particular religion, since the 7 buildable ones have no religious association.

Looking for other ways to do this than the current method, since unless I calculated wrong it would take well millions of lines of code to complete the script in current form.

;Check Lin-an
monitor_event BuildingCompleted SettlementBuildingFinished = religious_A1
		and SettlementName Lin-an
		and I_SettlementOwner Lin-an song

		inc_counter settlement_religion_daoxue_Lin-an 1

end_monitor

;Fix counter if a building is destroyed
monitor_event BuildingDestroyed BuildingName = religious_A1
		and SettlementName Lin-an
		and I_SettlementOwner Lin-an song

		inc_counter settlement_religion_daoxue_Lin-an -1

end_monitor

A sample of the current code for one building for one faction for one city. In current form it would need to be replicated:

Lines of Code x Factions x Cities x Buildings

So:

10 x 15 x 190 x 63

AKA 1.8 million lines of code....(that doesn't even count the create/destroy code)

Sooooo, that obviously isn't the best option. Need to find some other way of doing this.

Might be able to cut out the faction-specific part if I associate each tree to a counter for a faction. Like:

religious_A_is_daoxue
religious_A_is_mahayana

etc.

Then could use if statements and wouldn't have to include faction since that would be determined elsewhere. This would eliminate the factions replication, and make the lines of code needed ~48 more. That would end up being:

58 x 190 x 63

~700,000 lines of code. Not a hell of a lot better, but better.

I can't cut any of the other 3 parts that factor into the total amount. I could possibly use Plug-Ins to determine the region, and then use that inside more if statements, but nested if statements have never been that nice to me, and I'm not sure if it would even marginalize the total lines required.

[S-te-Fan]

ghe ghe... 2.3 million of code. Good luck with finding something else .

[GrnEyedDvl]

hmmmm

[Augustus Lucifer]

Revisiting this, taking a different approach. It's obvious that the building-related religious conversion methods are useful but faulty. Doing this by building conversion buildings would be hell, so going to attempt to do it using script commands. It's still pretty restrictive but I can see it working better.

This is a very small code snippet:

;**********Script 1H-2. Religion Conversion**********
;|Author| Augustus Lucifer
;|Purpose| Lets the player set conversion policies.
;|Changelog|
; o Script Created 7-09-09

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionIsLocal
		and FactionReligion daoxue
if I_LocalFaction song
	if I_EventCounter religious_tolerance == 1
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 islam
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 mahayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 theravada
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 tengriism
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 vajrayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 1 heretic
	end_if
	if I_EventCounter religious_sponsorship == 1
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 islam
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 mahayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 theravada
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 tengriism
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 vajrayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 2 heretic
	end_if
	if I_EventCounter religious_persecution == 1
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 islam
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 mahayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 theravada
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 tengriism
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 vajrayana
		change_population_religion song daoxue 3 heretic
	end_if
end_if
end_monitor

So far all it does is check player faction, check current religion, and then check an event counter to determine how much to convert. There's a lot of things it doesn't do. Things which need to be added still:

- System for player setting policy: Tolerance, Sponsorship, Persecution

Possibly base it on advice request of some religious-related scroll or a priest selection or something of that nature.

- Random chance to convert so it isn't converting all the time
- Random chance modified by "likeness" of target religion to state religion
- Random chance modified by cultural policy
- Could also modify by buildings but this would be much harder and likely make a much longer script

This is tied in with lack of religious association for religious structures, and a lowered religious unrest modifier in the mechanics file, as well as a system by which the player can change state religion.

All of these need to be counterbalanced by a cost, and should be tied in with religious uprisings.