Changing Ownership/Allegiance by Script

**Resurrection** · January 01, 2012, 03:49 AM

Hi,

I am trying to figure out some less painful and less buggy way to change the ownership of a settlement or allegiance of a character by script. I need this because of strat map models. Consider Anatolia which is in Turkish hands at the start but should still look Roman. One option which works for forts (not sure if for settlements) is to give it to faction which look I prefer and then at the start of the game kill the garrison and spawn and move the proper owner inside. However this approach is often quite problematic and unreliable. Also for many places it takes significant amount of time to process as the armies actually have to move one by one.

I am therefore wondering if there is any easier way to change ownership/allegiance by script?

capture_settlement console command is supposedly only for player but perhaps it can be used between AIs too? It would solve the problem for the settlements.

Then there is control which switches the Local faction. Maybe combination of the two could do the trick? Still there is an outstanding issue of how to change ownership of forts - they are of the region owners appearance and ownership when without garrison at start OR of the actual owner's appearance and ownership when garrisoned at start.

Thank you in advance for any advice on this!

**vercassivelaunos** · January 01, 2012, 04:41 AM

For settlements it's fairly easy. In the descr_strat there is a faction_creator entry for every settlement:

Code:

year_founded 0
    population 3800
    plan_set default_set
    faction_creator england

This determines how the settlement looks in the beginning. It will look as if it belonged to the faction you write into this line.

For forts I don't know a similarly easy way.

**attyla** · January 01, 2012, 06:52 AM

Unfortunalty, there is no way, besides of using command maintain or attack, to change the owner of the settlement.

**Resurrection** · January 01, 2012, 08:24 AM

Thx vercassivelaunos. I have tried that long time ago and I thought it didn't work but it probably did.

2attyla: Hm, since there is a way to set up a siege in descr_strat.txt and influence it in CS I think this could be the way to go!