Checking whether AI has ships and if not, then spawn them a navy

[Jadli]

I was trying to find a way to be able to check if AI has any ships, and if not, spawn them new ones, which is of course more effective than just giving them ships time from time. As for some factions it may be essential for their AI to have some. And in case they are also bankrupted fir example, they are done for.

I think, this is the only way? (I tested it, works)

;------------------------------------------
Trigger naval_gunner_vnv_trigger2
    WhenToTest AgentCreated
    Condition IsAdmiral


    AcquireAncillary naval_navigator chance  100 
    
;------------------------------------------
Trigger naval_gunner_vnv_trigger2
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition IsAdmiral


    AcquireAncillary naval_navigator chance  100 
    


;------------------------------------------
Trigger shipwright_vnv_trigger3
    WhenToTest NewAdmiralCreated
    Condition IsAdmiral


    AcquireAncillary naval_navigator chance  100

(one of them may be redundant)



And script

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart not CharacterIsLocal
        and FactionType england
        and not FactionwideAncillaryExists naval_navigator
        ;and RandomPercent > 75
        
        campaign_wait 0.1
        
        spawn_army
                faction        england
                character    random_name, admiral, age 38, x 230, y 142
                traits Sailor 1
                unit        galleass            exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
            end
            
    end_monitor

So all admirals receive an ancillary, and if the ancillary doesnt exist, the factions gets new ships.

( I havent seen anything similar to this used in any mod, hence Im posting it)



BTW, while at this, it seems that vanilla anc trigger "naval_gunner_vnv_trigger" is broken (it never comes true) tho "shipwright_vnv_trigger" works fine.

[bitterhowl]

Good idea!

For the sake of optimisation CharacterTurnStart event should be changed for something less frequent one. Does FactionTurnStart export FactionwideAncillaryExists condition?

[z3n]

Neat and this should be in the tutorials section if it's a tutorial.

[Jadli]

Hm, seems to be kinda short, I will probably include it in some larger thread once I have one

Good idea!

For the sake of optimisation CharacterTurnStart event should be changed for something less frequent one. Does FactionTurnStart export FactionwideAncillaryExists condition?

it wasnt working with FactionTurnStart, it was saying that it couldnt export character_record, so yea...

(and without the wait, it was crashing)

[Jadli]

alright then

[bitterhowl]

Ah, yes, I remembered same script with FactionwideAncillaryExists for BellumCrucis I tried to optimize. I used there IsFactionLeader - if character is not FL monitor ends at first line.

[Withwnar]

A possible problem there is that every recruited ship becomes a 'true' admiral --> can't merge with any other ships because they're true admirals too --> no fleets, just single ships, reducing their naval battle chances against the player who can merge as normal.

True admiral being one that has any trait points or ancs.

[Jadli]

Hm, thats true... though I think that the AI doesnt merge/divide ships much anyway... if you give them a half stack, they will likely keep the half stack together, at least in my experience

But its definitely a downside of this

[Gigantus]

You could do a character turn end monitor that checks for agent type and if it's an admiral increases a counter by 1. And then at faction turn end spawn a fleet if the counter is zero, don't forget to put a counter reset IF section below the spawn IF section.

[Withwnar]

Or possibly this...

declare_counter admiral_exists

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType slave

  set_counter admiral_exists 0
  if I_CharacterTypeNearTile england admiral 1000 0,0
    set_counter admiral_exists 1
  end_if
  if I_CompareCounter admiral_exists = 0
    ;no england admirals: spawn one
  end_if

  set_counter admiral_exists 0
  if I_CharacterTypeNearTile france admiral 1000 0,0
    set_counter admiral_exists 1
  end_if
  if I_CompareCounter admiral_exists = 0
    ;no france admirals: spawn one
  end_if

  ;...repeat for other factions...

end_monitor

[Jadli]

Ah, both solutions seems MUCH more reliable than my imperfect one

Seems Withwnar's solution is more efficient turn times wise, as it doesnt use CharacterTurnEnd, will try if it works


Talking of this, how would one check how many family members a faction has, and spawn more if needed?

EDIT Necroquote from Withwnar to me like 3 years ago

That's what I ended up doing via traits given to - and inherited by - anybody in a family tree. Script counts how many characters currently have this trait, then spawns a new one (with the "family" attribute/tag) when that number falls below a certain level.

There's no way to count living (or dead) family members directly. The only thing that comes close is I_NumberOfHeirs but it counts all generals (named characters) including the leader, whether they're actually family or not, and does not include off map characters. i.e. It's really a I_NumberOfNamedCharactersOnMap condition.

I assume if you also give the trait to the the adopted/married/manofhour generals via its triggers (LesserGeneralOfferedForAdoption) etc, it covers all the family members, right? Or is there still some hole?

[Withwnar]

I assume if you also give the trait to the the adopted/married/manofhour generals via its triggers (LesserGeneralOfferedForAdoption) etc, it covers all the family members, right? Or is there still some hole?

And CharacterComesOfAge, yes, and given to all starting family members in descr_strat.