The mystery of non merging fleets solved
Ever wondered why freshly recruited ships can't merge with each other?
Well, it appears that the game considers them characters were the anc and traits are concerned, unlike the land units. Remember how your hardly seaworthy tub all of sudden is\has an admiral, preferably after some heroic battle? And that those admirals can't merge?
Here is the twist now: any freshly recruited ship can pick up a trait\anc that automatically elevates it to admiral when it gets recruited. All it needs is a trait\anc that doesn't fulfill any of these these criteria:
- The Characters line in trait\anc may not contain 'all' or 'admiral'
- The trigger contains an exclusion for admiral: and not AgentType = admiral
- The WhenToTest event is not possible for an admiral, eg EndedInSettlement, ComesOfAge
Which makes CharacterTurnEnd\Start trigger events very prone to this.
So if you wonder why all of sudden your freshly recruited ships don't merge anymore have a look at your recent changes in the EDA and\or EDCT.
And don't ask me why it works this way for ships and not for land units (captains).
Last edited by Gigantus; August 28, 2017 at 08:19 PM.