Religious_Belief - Was it carried over from RTW BI?

**Pnutmaster** · July 10, 2009, 10:16 PM

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Trait Western_Civilized_Influence1
Characters family
ExcludeCultures eastern, carthaginian, egyptian, greek, roman
NoGoingBackLevel 1
AntiTraits Western_Civilized_Influence2

Level Western_Civilized_Influence1
Description Western_Civilized_Influence1_desc
EffectsDescription Western_Civilized_Influence1_effects_desc
Threshold 1

Effect Management 1
Effect Influence 1
Religious_Belief pagan 1

Displayed above is a section of the Ethnic Project's VnV for RTW BI. Like the majority of RTW coding, was the effect "Religious_Belief" also carried over to M2TW? If so, is it still functional? Has anyone successfully observed it affecting the religious conversation rate of settlements?

**Augustus Lucifer** · July 10, 2009, 10:47 PM

There is a condition in scripting called "CharacterReligion", so presumably in addition to a faction having a state religion and a settlement having a religious demographic, a character could nominally have its own religion it observes. Whether or not it's done via a command like that one I don't know, but I seriously doubt it. M2 was likely built off the Rome engine without most of the BI tweaks and added some in piecemeal, seeing as how it must have started development before Rome's release so it would be 1.5 years in the making by the time BI was finished. One thing is for sure, that nothing from Rome: Alexander is in M2/Kingdoms directly.

So you can try it, maybe it will work. I would suggest running a script using the CharacterReligion command to see if it worked after granting it in the descr_strat to a character that is in a settlement/faction with a differing religion.

Code:

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart CharacterIsLocal
    and CharacterReligion pagan
 historic_event it_worked false ;obviously have to define in strings file
end_monitor

**Pnutmaster** · July 11, 2009, 12:03 AM

Tested, trigger did not fire.

Curiously, the EDCT accepts the line "Religious_Belief". I confirmed this by substituting "Religious_Belief" for "Religious_lols". My game log was promptly filled with hundreds of lines of errors. Assigning "Religious_Belief" to a general might be the very same as giving one points in Subterfuge. The game keeps a tally, but the effect is not expressed ingame in any way.

My next test will see if Priests can use "Religious_Belief".