Holy Cow! Just loked in the Leaders xml and each Leader has an outrageous number of modifiers for each Leader. I see that diplomacy adds a great deal to that group. But all the ones with >0< that are integer based, are they truly necessary?
Each Leader have so many modifiers that it makes you wonder why Traits are even needed. Especially having 3 more sets of modifiers (each Trait assigned) to mod the Leader's base modifiers.
No wonder no one can explain how things work.
Is this much complexity worth it? You could have conflicting modifiers and not even know it.
JosEPh
Many of those 0's should have values assigned and don't and that's been a flaw in the mod for a long time. I wanted to resolve all this with an easy archetype assignment system for leaders so that archetypes could be setup and established and would represent certain personality groupings that could be mixed and matched more simply by leader.
Most of the xml there is not values but rather are settings to create variation in the way the leader behaves. This is where the personality of the leader is rooted. Traits are the actual modifiers leaders obtain in game terms. On developing leaders, leaders will select traits based on their personalities, specifically based on their Flavor settings compared to flavor settings on the traits themselves.
Does this area need work? Oh yeah. But it was another project cut short when I was waiting on AIAndy to complete a portion of the project and he decided to fade off mid-project and RidetheSpiral was working on the xml for it and quit halfway through and never posted what he'd come up with.
I admit to being a little demanding of a more difficult solution than was perhaps necessary. Then again, I could create a solution for that too. But the fact of the matter is it's not an area I'm greatly concerned about yet.
If you want I could link you to that discussion.
Okay I need someone to help decipher this property staement:
Code:
<PropertyManipulators>
<PropertySource>
<PropertySourceType>PROPERTYSOURCE_ATTRIBUTE_CONSTANT</PropertySourceType>
<PropertyType>PROPERTY_CRIME</PropertyType>
<GameObjectType>GAMEOBJECT_CITY</GameObjectType>
<RelationType>RELATION_ASSOCIATED</RelationType>
<AttributeType>ATTRIBUTE_POPULATION</AttributeType>
<iAmountPerTurn>5</iAmountPerTurn>
<Active>
<Greater>
<PropertyType>PROPERTY_CRIME</PropertyType>
<Mult>
<AttributeType>ATTRIBUTE_POPULATION</AttributeType>
<Constant>2</Constant>
</Mult>
</Greater>
</Active>
</PropertySource>
</PropertyManipulators>
Does this take the city pop and add 5 crime per pop and then multiplies it by 2?
Looks like it's +5 crime per round if the pop is over 2. Not 100% sure on that though. Easiest way to find out is to open the mod and check the pedia on that object. Should state things fairly accurately there.
And this is in addition to the Main Crime Property which assigns 4 Crime/pop to all Civs in the game.
Yes but it doesn't look like it's setting an amount per pop here. If I'm wrong there then I'd suppose it's saying +5 crime per 2 population. I always need to go off of the pedia and then comparable examples in code to work out how to use those condition tags.
Also on the Traits that have a 1 attached to the name, ex. Aggressive and then there is an Aggressive1, used to differentiate between Focused Traits and Slicks traits?
JosEPh
Now this is interesting. Traits without the 1 after them are differentiated from the versions of the traits that apply on developing leaders. If you aren't using developing leaders, then the ones without the 1 apply and if you are, then the ones with the 1 form the basis of the start of the trait tiers (and the way it was established up to this point is we don't yet have Aggressive2 for example.)
You'll notice that Traits with a 0 iLinePriority are the ones without the 1. Those are the traits used for games without Developing Leaders. The ones with a 1 have an iLinePriority of 1 (or -1 if they are negative traits.) Anything outside of iLinePriority 0 is used by Developing Leaders and ONLY iLinePriority 0 traits are used by the core. These were intended to let the core traits be stronger and let the developing traits be a bit softer hitting so they could be built onto by further trait assignments. We never got to that point of development.
