[R&F] Questions and Problems

[Makarya]

Hello, i'm going to make use one post to post all my question, it will be easier to follow.

I'm creating a mod to tweak the naval combat a bit.

I give the naval raider a malus against land unit and district. No problem to give it (only when attacking) but it's not perfect
First problem: preview in combat recapitulary. When hovering for an attack the malus is taken into the final strength but the small message for this modificator is absent.
For a moment it was there, but it dissapeared when i change nothing, i do not know what. There is no error in database.log.

I thought it was managed by:
<ModifierStrings>
<Row ModifierId="NAVAL_RAIDER_LAND_MALUS" Context="Preview" Text="LOC_ABILITY_WEAK_AGAINST_LAND_PREVIEW"/>
<Row ModifierId="NAVAL_RAIDER_DISTRICT_MALUS" Context="Preview" Text="LOC_ABILITY_NAVAL_RAIDER_WEAK_ATTACK_AGAINST_DISTRICT_PREVIEW"/>
<Row ModifierId="NAVAL_RAIDER_NAVAL_RANGED_MALUS" Context="Preview" Text="LOC_AABILITY_NAVAL_RANGED_WEAK_ATTACK_AGAINST_NAVAL_RAIDER_PREVIEW"/>
</ModifierStrings>

Second problem: the malus is against embarked opponent and i would like to change that. I tried to copy from the Preparatory fire promotion but i didn't see anything about embarked unit.

Edit: Bonus question. If i wanted to remove the coastal raid from submarine, am i obliged to pass by sql?



The mod: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjzvkOieRFT54C3eNkJ4sbdGICVz

 

[S1AL]

I believe the issue is that you changed the name from "LOC_ABILITY_WEAK_AGAINST_LAND_DESCRIPTION" (in UnitAbilities) to "LOC_ABILITY_WEAK_AGAINST_LAND_PREVIEW" (in ModifierStrings).

As far as the embarked units issue goes, I don't see a way to check against either the defender's terrain or embarkation status. I'll dig around some more later.

 

[LeeS]

Edit: Bonus question. If i wanted to remove the coastal raid from submarine, am i obliged to pass by sql?

The only time you must use SQL instead of XML is when you are attempting a database operation that XML does not support. SQL for example can copy data from an existing Row and create a new Row in a table, whereas XML cannot. You can <Update> or <Delete> an existing Row in a table using XML, and you can <Delete> multiple rows in a table with XML but sometimes doing a multiple-row delete (whether by XML or SQL) deletes more than was intended so you have to be careful about your specification of what to delete from a given table.