America and Timurids: When does it happen?

[Parzival2211]

Trying to play a campaign long enough to see the Timurids appear and get a chance to conquer America. How much longer do I have to wait? It's 1354...

[lolIsuck]

looks like this but I didn't expect is so late, I thougt they were sooner.

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; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic timurids_invasion_warn
date 288 304


; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic world_is_round
date 320 328

edit: ok, 1180 is 0 and 288 is 1468 I guess, although that seems pretty late too

[=Bright=]

looks like this but I didn't expect is so late, I thougt they were sooner.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic timurids_invasion_warn
date 288 304


; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic world_is_round
date 320 328

edit: ok, 1180 is 0 and 288 is 1468 I guess, although that seems pretty late too

The campaign starts in 1080.

1080 + 288 = 1368

[In3x]

I believe the timurids show up around turn 125.

[lolIsuck]

ok, 1368 then, I made a miscalculation, haven't played for some time
It would be somewhere around turn 144-152

[Mhaedros]

It isnt one year a turn is it?

[=Bright=]

Even if it was, the arrival DATE is always the same. It's the arrival TURN that varies when you change the Turns Per Year.

[Mhaedros]

That's not what I'm saying, but you cant just add 280 to 1080 since those are the turns and the turns do not symbolize the date, am I right?

[=Bright=]

That's not what I'm saying, but you cant just add 280 to 1080 since those are the turns and the turns do not symbolize the date, am I right?

You're right when saying that turns do not necessarily symbolize the date.

Anyways, the timescale (or turns per year) doesn't affect the date of an event. You can easily check this by comparing 2 campaigns with different timescales.

[jmlinden7]

Scripted events happen at a fixed date, regardless of turn count. The 280 in the text file refers to how many years it takes for them to show up (1360AD)

[Parzival2211]

I think it's 1,5 years per turn. That's why a winter is followed by a summer, is followed by another winter and so on...

so cool, the Timurids should hit me soon - too soon for me to recover from the plague... scary...

[In3x]

vanilla is 2 years per turn.

[Parzival2211]

vanilla is 2 years per turn.

I am quite sure it's 1,5 (also the reason they don't show the year, only turns).

When you load the campaign from the menu, it shows the year though. You can see it goes from year x to year x+1 to x+3 to x+4 to x+6 to x+7 and so on...

[Mhaedros]

It has to be 1.5 since there is both winter and summer. If it would've been exactly 2 years the winter/summer would never come

[fredtrotter]

It actually is two years. You can see the years when you go into the main overview page. The summer/winter effect is a mistake by ca I think

[lolIsuck]

It's not a mistake I think, they just want to have summer and winter on the strat map. (although there wasn't really any fighting in the winter normally)
I think it's deliberately false like the aging system, you can't possibly be so stupid to let people age one year every four years.

[nessj999]

in vanilla, americas is from 1400

[In3x]

Perhaps it's like the Ashes, each turn represents 2 and a half years then 1 and a half years, although the date on the screen does change by 2 years every turn.

[PrinceRufus2]

In vanilla, America can happen when you reach the final ship design and sail west. I believe this can only happen when you play as Portugal or Spain, though.

[fredtrotter]

No. Anyone can reach the Americas, even the Russians and the egyptians.