Building/Trait Issue(Solved)

**Theodotos I** · September 08, 2009, 01:14 PM

Okay, thanks for all the help the other day with buildings and ancillaries. Everything worked perfectly. But then I got the crazy idea that my ancillaries weren’t really of sufficient importance to take up one of the eight ancillary slots, so I decided to transfer the whole concept to the EDCT. Unfortunately, that caused all sorts of lovely problems. The entire series of traits fires in rapid succession, regardless of conditions and prerequisites.

Here’s the first trigger, which works perfectly. I have my logging set up to trace and this one is not only firing, but firing on schedule.

Code:

 
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Trigger spanish_government_regidor
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition IsGeneral
                         and EndedInSettlement
                          and CharacterNumTurnsIdle >= 2
                          and not Trait Negro >= 1
                          and not Trait Mestizo >= 1
          and SettlementBuildingExists = cabildo
 
             Affects Spanish_Government 1 Chance 100

The second trigger fires erratically and often not at all, but the character receives the second level of trait regardless. Typically the character receives this trait the following turn after Regidor, when it should arrive four turns later.

Code:

 
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Trigger spanish_government_alcalde
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition IsGeneral
                                    and EndedInSettlement
                                    and CharacterNumTurnsIdle >= 6
                                    and not Trait Negro >= 1
                                    and not Trait Mestizo >= 1
                                    and SettlementBuildingExists = cabildo
 
    Affects Spanish_Government 2 Chance 100

And finally the third level, which is supposed to be dependent upon the next level of government building, but fires within two or three turns without the second level of building being constructed.

Code:

 
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Trigger spanish_government_corregidore
            WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
            Condition IsGeneral
                                    and EndedInSettlement
                                    and CharacterNumTurnsIdle >= 8
                                    and not Trait Negro >= 1
                                    and not Trait Mestizo >= 1
                                    and SettlementBuildingExists = residence_corregidore
 
            Affects Spanish_Government 4 Chance 100

And finally the trait itself so you can see how I set up the levels.

Code:

 
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Trait Spanish_Government
            Characters family
 
            Level Regidor 
                        Description Regidor_desc
                        EffectsDescription Regidor_effects_desc
                        Threshold 1
 
            Level Alcalde
                        Description Alcalde_desc
                        EffectsDescription Alcalde_effects_desc
                        Threshold 2
 
            Level Corregidore
                        Description Corregidore_desc
                        EffectsDescription Corregidore_effects_desc
                        Threshold 4

EDIT: I just found out that since the trait advances one level each EndTurn, that explains my problem. However, I can’t figure out how to rework this so it will work. I tried scripting is as AntiTraits, but that doesn’t work any better. Any ideas?

**Squid** · September 08, 2009, 03:35 PM

If you want it to happen when they're idle for 2 turns, then change the condition to be and CharacterNumTurnsIdle = 2. If you don't this and leave the condition as and CharacterNumTurnsIdle >= 2 means that every turn, after the second, they're receiving one point towards the spanish_government trait. This means that the turn after they get the first level they'll get the second. Also note that the numbers in the triggers are points towards a level, and not the level number.

**Theodotos I** · September 09, 2009, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Sqυιd

If you want it to happen when they're idle for 2 turns, then change the condition to be and CharacterNumTurnsIdle = 2. If you don't this and leave the condition as and CharacterNumTurnsIdle >= 2 means that every turn, after the second, they're receiving one point towards the spanish_government trait. This means that the turn after they get the first level they'll get the second. Also note that the numbers in the triggers are points towards a level, and not the level number.

Okay, so if I take away the ">" sign they won't gain additional points each turn and it should work as written? If so, thanks.