[Request] How to decrease all agents success rates?

[dfeal]

I would like to decrease (practically make it <1%) the success rate for agent actions against generals, armies and cities. Personally I think they should just be scouts and influencers not James Bond like agents capably of destroying units or killing generals. I have taken a look and read what little there is on the forums about agents but I've yet to see clear guidelines on how to alter agent success chances on assassinations and other aggressive actions.

TIA!

[dfeal]

I have found some tables that seem to suggest influence of agent actions. "actions_results_additional_outcomes" seems my best bet so far. In there are entries labelled;
agent_wounded / agent_action_all_failure_critical_hinder_character
I have tried setting this value to -100 but to no avail.

There's also one called; agent_action_zero_cost / agent_action_all_failure_opportune_hinder_army, set to value of 0. Will changing this make a difference? And setting it to what? 1? 100? -1?

I am basically trying to make all agent hinder actions against characters (generals I am guessing), army and settlements practically zero. Like only 1% chance of success. Then if an agent succeeds, good luck to him/her. Me, I am simply fed-up of losing generals and buildings to multiple agents, turn after turn.

TIA!

[Dresden]

I think those values are just dictating what happens if an agent gets a skilled failure. That is where they fail but get xp anyway.

Try looking at the campaign_difficulty_handicap_effects table.

There are two entries, rom_agent_action_success_chance_critical_mod_hinder_character and rom_agent_action_success_chance_mod_hinger_character. Try changing the values for those for every difficulty level to something like -100. Just a theory, haven't tested it.