Lifespan modifiers - possible?

**Vladyvid** · January 20, 2012, 04:58 AM

Hi

Im wondering does anyone know if its possible to create modifiers for lifespan of characters, which would essentially reduce their lifespan to whatever is desired? For example if I set the maximum lifespan of characaters to 200 years, can I create traits or other modifiers to give particular factions or characters a shorter lifespan? Lets say I would like some of them to only live up to 50% of that maximum lifespan, or 20%, etc. Is it possible and if so then how to do it?

Thanks in advance for any replies.
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**Emperor of Hell** · January 20, 2012, 08:17 AM

No I'm pretty sure that's not possible, but you could script for the starting characters to die at a certain turn.

**King William the Conqueror** · January 20, 2012, 09:28 AM

yes it is possible. I forget the name of the file but I will look it up

here you go. it is an xml file. Once you have notepad open then you need to click on descr_campaign_db.xml in the data directory.
you cannot open it from my computer directly

**Emperor of Hell** · January 20, 2012, 01:49 PM

Yes but that's for all factions/characters, the op wants different age limits per faction

**SpyrosM91** · January 20, 2012, 01:50 PM

per faction??? that's not possible...

**CavalryCmdr** · January 21, 2012, 08:49 PM

You could add mortality traits to different factions. While this would not really change the life-span on a per-faction basis, you could cirtainly make it more likely that some factions would not live as long as others.

**Kiliç Alì** · January 22, 2012, 03:11 PM

Can you give an exampe of mortality trait?

**danny X** · January 22, 2012, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Kiliç Alì

Can you give an exampe of mortality trait?

The opposite of Hale and Hearty, the Hypochondriac trait line, this gives the general lower hit points, i dont know if it lowers life expectancy.

**Kiliç Alì** · January 22, 2012, 05:22 PM

It does not.

;------------------------------------------
Trait Hypochondriac
Characters family
NoGoingBackLevel 3
AntiTraits HaleAndHearty, Sane
Level Feeling_Poorly
Description Feeling_Poorly_desc
EffectsDescription Feeling_Poorly_effects_desc
Threshold 1
Effect Attack -1
Effect HitPoints -2
Level Delusions_of_Illness
Description Delusions_of_Illness_desc
EffectsDescription Delusions_of_Illness_effects_desc
Threshold 2
Effect TroopMorale -1
Effect Attack -1
Effect HitPoints -4
Level Hypochondriac
Description Hypochondriac_desc
EffectsDescription Hypochondriac_effects_desc
Threshold 3
Effect TroopMorale -2
Effect Attack -2
Effect HitPoints -6

the point is, I don't know any "mortal" Effect for a trait.
Mybe the plague? does anybody exactly know does it work?

**vercassivelaunos** · January 23, 2012, 01:45 AM

Well, plagues only work for whole settlements, not for single characters. And even if it worked for single characters, it would only be possible to make them ill via script, which would need the characters name. But it is virtually impossible to find out a random characters name (though one could make (number of names*number of surnames) monitors. But this would not do your turn calculating time a favor

).
So there is sadly no way to decrease a factions life span. Otherwise I'm sure it would have been done in Third Age (elves are mortal^^).

**Kiliç Alì** · January 23, 2012, 09:28 AM

maybe if it is possible to make a character to be a plague bearer even without knowing his name, by putting "this" in the command entry instead of the name, after a CharacterSelected event. Does anybody know the command to make somebody a plague bearer (if such a command exists, which I really doubt)?

**vercassivelaunos** · January 23, 2012, 09:46 AM

This could work, but I haven't ever heard of such a command (and I've read through all of the Docudemons). Anyway, this desease would also affect the settlement a character is stationed in, so this would would give a massive disadvantage to short living factions.