Character Aging

**kevindrosario** · May 14, 2011, 11:08 AM

I took a look at GrnEyedDvl's 12TPY and aging script, and I just wanted to make sure that I am understanding the aging part correctly so that I can adjust it to my liking.

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The part that I bolded tells the game when characters should not age, right? So only if the month counter is at 12 will the game recognize the season as "winter", and only in "winter" will the characters age, right?

They never age in summer, so he basically set January - November as "summer" and December as "winter" so they only age in December?

**TNZ** · May 14, 2011, 09:59 PM

Yes. That sounds right.

**kevindrosario** · May 16, 2011, 10:13 AM

It seems to be working like I thought. I set it at 52 turns per year and it's been 30 turns and nobody has aged yet. Let's see if they age at turn 52.

**Squid** · May 16, 2011, 10:29 AM

Its simple, characters age when season's switch from winter to summer. Summer to summer, summer to winter, winter to winter season switches do not cause aging.

**kevindrosario** · May 20, 2011, 12:21 PM

That makes sense. Thanks Squid.

**alhoon** · May 24, 2011, 03:08 AM

Wow...

So, if I want them to age a year in one turn, I can have 2 winter>Summer switches?

Like this?

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionIsLocal
console_command season winter
console_command season summer
console_command season winter
console_command season summer
end_monitor

???

**TNZ** · May 24, 2011, 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by alhoon

Wow...

So, if I want them to age a year in one turn, I can have 2 winter>Summer switches?

Like this?

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionIsLocal
console_command season winter
console_command season summer
console_command season winter
console_command season summer
end_monitor

???

Yes. Like this:

campaign_script:

Code:

	monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
		console_command season winter
	end_monitor

descr_strat:

Code:

timescale	1.00

**alhoon** · May 24, 2011, 04:07 PM

Thanks, yeah I knew about the timescale. It just irked me that generals used to age so slowly. On the other hand... having a general grow old and die within 30 turns is kinda lame.

**certoipus** · June 07, 2011, 02:42 PM

Please, help me with aging in SS 6.4.

I've changed timescale 1.00 to 0.50

but characters are aging faster than 0.50 on turn.

I've found aging script:

;=================== AGEING SCRIPT ======================
declare_counter season
declare_counter turn
set_counter turn 0

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType slave
console_command season winter
set_counter turn 1
end_monitor

monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart I_CompareCounter turn = 1

inc_counter season 1
if I_CompareCounter season = 1
console_command season summer
end_if

if I_CompareCounter season = 2
console_command season winter
set_counter season 0
end_if

set_counter turn 0

end_monitor

What should I change to have proper aging with timescale 0.50 ?

ANSWER: delete ageing script from campaing*.txt