Power Centers

**King Siegfried** · October 09, 2009, 12:15 AM

I tried searching for "power centers" and didn't find what I was looking for, and unfortunately I didn't know what else to look up... So I'm posting here.

So I wanted to emulate the Crusades campaign some more and bring back the "Power Centers" - especially for Antioch. Now, I copied and pasted the script they used in Crusades, and just replaced it with the relevant settlements and factions. It doesn't work. The units never show up for recruitment, despite me having the settlements. Here is my current script:

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Am I doing this correctly? I could have sworn that I got this working before, so I haven't touched the script since, but I started play-testing KoH and now it is clearly not working lol.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

**Augustus Lucifer** · October 09, 2009, 01:35 AM

Try replacing the add_events with:

set_event_counter holds_antioch 1

and similar things. It's much more straightforward. You also need to make sure you have the unit lines in the EDB. The way that script works is extremely simple, it sets an event counter to 1, and then various recruit pool lines in the EDB check for that counter.

**King Siegfried** · October 09, 2009, 11:52 PM

Should look like this, yes?

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**Augustus Lucifer** · October 10, 2009, 12:03 AM

That should work.

**King Siegfried** · October 10, 2009, 12:46 AM

custom_script ::

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export_descr_buildings ::

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It's not working, but I don't see why it wouldn't... :\

**Augustus Lucifer** · October 10, 2009, 12:56 AM

Is your script working in general? When something stops working for me, I usually split it off into a new script called test_script.txt and change the referenced file in the descr_strat at the bottom. Then I include only that script, and include in each monitor a command like:

Code:

log Jerusalem doesn't own Jeruslam FIRED

Or

Code:

historic_event jerusalem_not_owned

Since those let you insure the script is working as intended.

**King Siegfried** · October 10, 2009, 01:10 AM

Only that script? So the only script in the entire game is my power center ones?

**Augustus Lucifer** · October 10, 2009, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by King Siegfried

Only that script? So the only script in the entire game is my power center ones?

Yeah, just make a new file with:

Code:

;
; Test Script
;
script

;Detect if settlement has been lost
;Decrement event counter

monitor_conditions not I_SettlementOwner Jerusalem = jerusalem
and I_EventCounter holds_jerusalem == 1
and I_NumberOfSettlements jerusalem > 0
set_event_counter holds_jerusalem 0
log MONITOR #1 WORKS
end_monitor

monitor_conditions not I_SettlementOwner Antioch = knights_templar
and I_EventCounter holds_antioch == 1
and I_NumberOfSettlements knights_templar > 0
set_event_counter holds_antioch 0
log MONITOR #2 WORKS
end_monitor

monitor_conditions not I_SettlementOwner Edessa = knights_templar
and I_EventCounter holds_edessa == 1
and I_NumberOfSettlements knights_templar > 0
set_event_counter holds_edessa 0
log MONITOR #3 WORKS
end_monitor

;Detect if settlement has been taken
;Increment event counter

monitor_conditions I_SettlementOwner Jerusalem = jerusalem
and I_EventCounter holds_jerusalem == 0
set_event_counter holds_jerusalem 1
log MONITOR #4 WORKS
end_monitor

monitor_conditions I_SettlementOwner Antioch = knights_templar
and I_EventCounter holds_antioch == 0
set_event_counter holds_antioch 1
log MONITOR #5 WORKS
end_monitor

monitor_conditions I_SettlementOwner Edessa = knights_templar
and I_EventCounter holds_edessa == 0
set_event_counter holds_edessa 1
log MONITOR #6 WORKS
end_monitor

;;;;end
    wait_monitors

end_script

Call it test_script.txt and change the last line in the descr_strat:

Code:

script
test_script.txt

This is a good method to try out new things that aren't contingent on other scripting factors or to isolate errors. I have a scripts folder where I keep a few miscellaneous scripts like this. The descr_strat reference line accepts paths, so:

Code:

script
scripts/test_script.txt

works fine.

**King Siegfried** · October 10, 2009, 01:54 AM

Well that's weird. I plugged it in like you said to see if that would work and... works fine! I think

Code:

;
; Test Script
;
script
 
;Detect if settlement has been lost
;Decrement event counter

made all the difference in the world. So now my power centers are working! Hooray! If that made no difference, then I don't know what made it decide to work, but it's working, so... yeah.

Thank you so much for all your patience and help, Augustus. I feel so bad because, for the most part, scripting goes right over my head. I can mod this game in just about every other aspect, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around scripting. So again... thank you SO much for your help!

+rep