Battle of Zarklaw

[cupcoffee]

Those units were merely sent to our borders to guard our holy lands, nothing more.
We shall pull them back a few steps, but we warn against any pagan attempts to infiltrate Skern territory.

[McMonkey]

I put the event file into the scenario folder but got an error message when I loaded the game. I will try and find out what the problem is using the @DEBUG command.

[McMonkey]

The report stops at:

@IF CITYTAKEN found
looking for [continuous],city=,attacker=,defender=
found city=Zefirhanse
found attacker=Skern Zatarn (king id=6)
found defender=Zefir Zatarn (king id=6)
@THEN found

@THEN JUSTONCE found
not looking for anything else here

@THEN TEXT found
looking for [no broadcast],ENDTEXT
found ENDTEXT

@THEN CREATEUNIT found
looking for unit=,owner=,veteran=,homecity=,[incapital],locations,endlocations,[count=]
found unit=Deakon (unit id=22)
found owner=Skern Zatarn (king id=7)
found homecity=None
found locations
found location 0: 81, 93, 0 (map=0)
found endlocations

@THEN PLAYWAVEFILE found, looking for file name
found wave file name SKERN.wav
@ENDIF found

@IF found - creating new event structure
New event structure created

@IF CITYTAKEN found
looking for [continuous],city=,attacker=,defender=
found city=Kargraad

Which is this event:

@IF
CITYTAKEN
city=Kargraad
attacker=ANYBODY
defender=Khaarov Commonwealth
@THEN
JUSTONCE
TEXT
^
^^ The Khaarov empire shudders in disbelief as the ancient
^^ capital city of Kargraad is taken! Even the mighty keep
^^ and Chancellery defences cannot stem the tide of war...
^
ENDTEXT
PlayWaveFile
CONQUER.wav
@ENDIF

It's a bit early in the morning and my eyes aren't quite focused yet but I can't see anything wrong with this event. Any ideas?

[Jerec]

It's a bit early in the morning and my eyes aren't quite focused yet but I can't see anything wrong with this event. Any ideas?

I don't see anything wrong with it either. These events were a direct copy from the what I am currently using, including the edits. I just tried running delevent.exe and loading the game, and didn't get an error message myself.

[McMonkey]

Just tried it again after dragging and dropping the hotseat save onto the delevent icon and I still get the error message. To test if the events work I started my turn, saved, renamed the file to .sav and loaded it up in single player then emptied my capital of troops and created a Skern unit with which I captured the city. There was no event! This would suggest to me that none of the events are now working. Could you send me the event file you are using again just in case there was a mix up.

[Jerec]

Ok, I think I fixed it after running a debug. I cut out two events, both IFUNITKILLED commands for a "High Jaarl Volki", a unit that doesn't currently exist.

[McMonkey]

New events worked fine. Thanks Jerec!

[Ingvar]

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[Jerec]

[Cobra]

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[Rebelious]

Those units were merely sent to our borders to guard our holy lands, nothing more.
We shall pull them back a few steps, but we warn against any pagan attempts to infiltrate Skern territory.

We would appreciate that

[cupcoffee]

Hmm, I think some of the events got messed up by resetting due to the change of event files.
Wouldn't the easiest way to have fixed this to simply cheat away the alliance?

[Jerec]

Hmm, I think some of the events got messed up by resetting due to the change of event files.
Wouldn't the easiest way to have fixed this to simply cheat away the alliance?

If I remember correctly, the MAKEAGGRESSION command changes relations to war automatically, which would move our trade ships from where they are now, regardless of whether we have an alliance or not. If we didn't change the events, the only way to counteract this with cheat mode would be to declare war early, and place any moved ships back to where they were before war was declared in the same turn...which works, but it's easier to cut 10 lines from the Events than keep track of all those ships.

How did the events get messed up?

[cupcoffee]

It really only seems to be the breaking of the alliance that shifts units around, not the declaration of war itself, at least that's how it works on single player.

Anyway, I'm no longer receiving any Kozzarks, I tried the new events on single player and there wasn't any problems then, so I suspect the events might have reset and I have to reconquer my cities again or something.

[McMonkey]

When I played the first turn after the event change all the text popups appeared again one after the other so I think it may have reset everything.