This is how you use give_ancillary and remove_ancillary in a script.

[tornnight]

I was trying to figure out how to add and remove ancillaries via script since that has always been a desire for modders.

Well this works. But before you get too excited, it has limitations.

1. Only works with the active player faction because only the player can have a selected character.
2. Only 1 character can be selected per turn. So if two characters will get through the conditions, only 1 will actually be selected and get the ancillary. I imagine if you do this incorrectly, you could assign a ancillary to an unintended character.

I'm sure give_trait / remove_trait will also work the same way.

Tested with MTW2 1.2 Leaked Patch

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart Trait Leadership > 0
and not HasAncType leader_anc

e_select_character
console_command give_ancillary this leadership_anc_1
end_monitor

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart Trait Leadership > 0
and HasAncType leader_anc

e_select_character
console_command remove_ancillary this leadership_anc_1
end_monitor

[Miraj]

YES! Thank you! Its limited but I've been trying to find out how to do this for a while now. + rep

[GrnEyedDvl]

Ok I am reviving this thread as I have been testing some stuff with e_select_character with the Kingdoms .exe.

There seem to be a LOT of bugs/restrictions.

This works:

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monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FacionIsLocal
and IsFactionLeader
and I_TurnNumber > 1

add_money andor 20000

e_select_character
console_command give_trait this Drink

end_monitor

However if another trait happens to fire, it fails. I ran this several times, the money added every time so I know the trigger was firing, about 1/2 the time I get the Severe trait on the 2nd turn, and the Drink trait doesnt get added. On the 3rd turn it will add Drink if it didnt get added on the 2nd turn.

I added the I_TurnNumber > 1 because otherwise it fires as soon as the game starts. Changing it from FactionTurnStart to FactionTurnEnd still adds the money, actually it adds the money twice, but never adds the trait. I assume it adds the money twice because the e_select calls the character in the middle of the turn processing, wierd.




This works, with the same problem if another trait fires, it adds both traits just fine. Adding more traits seems to work, I added 5 and it ran.

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monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FacionIsLocal
and IsFactionLeader
and I_TurnNumber > 1

add_money andor 20000

e_select_character
console_command give_trait this Drink
console_command give_trait this AISightBonus
end_monitor

Ok I just discovered something that makes this an entire waste of time. I only have two characters on my map, my faction leader, and my priest. If you have the priest selected when you click End Turn, it adds the traits to the priest. If you have no character selected, it never adds the traits. You also cannot use other commands like reposition_character.

[alpaca]

That command doesn't work properly with most events. I think there are some with which it works reasonably well (something like assassination iirc) but it doesn't work on CharacterTurnStart or something in my opinion

[GrnEyedDvl]

Yeah I was trying to get a good list of what it does and doesnt work with, but it seems that having the character actually selected on the map screws everything up. Since we cant really control what is selected when End Turn is clicked, we cant reliably predict whats going to happen.