FactionType with multiple factions

[chrisb]

I'm trying to use FactionType in export_text_ancillaries.txt in such a way that a trigger would work with multiple factions but would be limited to those. Can someone verify whether this is possible and what is the correct syntax. I found some discussion on the topic here (message number 64), but since it is from 2005, thought to ask for more recent experience.

So can it be used like this:

Trigger xxx
    WhenToTest xxx
    Condition xxx
          and FactionType (carthage or huns or egypt)   ;IS THIS CORRECT?

    AcquireAncillary xxx chance  15

[chris10]

I'm trying to use FactionType in export_text_ancillaries.txt in such a way that a trigger would work with multiple factions but would be limited to those. Can someone verify whether this is possible and what is the correct syntax. I found some discussion on the topic here (message number 64), but since it is from 2005, thought to ask for more recent experience.

So can it be used like this:

Trigger xxx
    WhenToTest xxx
    Condition xxx
          and FactionType (carthage or huns or egypt)   ;IS THIS CORRECT?

    AcquireAncillary xxx chance  15

I think there has to be a trigger for each faction
To my knowledge there is no "or" function implemented in the engine...not for traits,ancillarys neither for scripting.
To make certain ancs or traits only for certain factions you have to use
excluded cultures and make triggers according the factions you want to adquiere the anc or trait...play around with conditions and triggers and automaticly you exclude a lot of possibilities

[Squid]

chris10 is correct your syntax won't work. But what you can do is use the condition and not FactionType xxx to eliminate every faction you don't want triggering the trigger.

[chrisb]

Ok, thanks for the advice! But to prevent extensive testing, could you still clarify these:

1) can I use and not FactionType xxx multiple times to exclude several factions, i.e. like this:

and not FactionType huns
and not FactionType egyptians
and not FactionType carthage

2) can I use more than one trigger for the same ancillary? I tried it once with something else, but the game kept crashing and I assumed that it is wrong. Is the following ok:

Trigger xxx_carthage
    WhenToTest xxx
    Condition xxx
          and FactionType carthage
    AcquireAncillary AncillaryName1 chance  15

Trigger xxx_huns
    WhenToTest xxx
    Condition xxx
          and FactionType huns
    AcquireAncillary AncillaryName1 chance  15

Trigger xxx_egypt
    WhenToTest xxx
    Condition xxx
          and FactionType egypt
    AcquireAncillary AncillaryName1 chance  15

[tone]

1) would be the best way of doing it....but also worth using ExcludeCultures (e.g. barbarian, greek, etc) if you can

[chrisb]

1) would be the best way of doing it....but also worth using ExcludeCultures (e.g. barbarian, greek, etc) if you can

OK, will try that. But does 2 also work? It might come handy in some other setting, for example if you want to give the same ancillary in two completely different kinds of situations?