Victoria 2 Mod - Unite The Roman Empire

[2012 Wont Happen]

I'm in the process of creating a mod for Victoria 2 that will allow you to form the Roman Empire, giving you cores on all territories once occupied by Roman forces.

I'm following a basic mod on how to create the country within the game, but there seems to be no tutorial on how to make a new option to unite under a new banner. I've been scouring all the unite nations .txt files and I can't make heads or tails of it. Too complex.

Also, I'm not sure if I understand adding cores, but I'm pretty sure I have that part.

Do any of y'all know how to do this/would anybody be interested in helping out with such a project?

So far my work consists only of this flag, which will be the only flag for Rome (I'm thinking about making Fascism the only government type for the country anyway):

 

[TheIronRuler]

You need to create the event, make it available to a country under certain conditions.
It requires editing a shitload of files a probably creating a file.

 

[Gwarr]

and I thought I was the only one playing this game. I still have no idea how to create the Byzantine Empire .

 

[Happy Yay]

Okay, I casually mod EU3 but own Victoria 2 so I'll see if I can help you.

Spoiler: Code

potential = {
is_culture_group = scandinavian

NOT = {
exists = SCA
}
}

We're looking at the decision for uniting Scandinavia. Right here is the potential, which means what it takes to get the decision to appear. is_culture_group = scandinavian means the nation has to be of scandinavian culture, and Not = { exists = SCA } (that's a simpler way to write it, by the way) means that Scandinavia cannot already exist. This part doesn't matter all too much.

Spoiler: Code

allow = {
is_greater_power = yes
prestige = 45
war = no
SCA = {
all_core = {
OR = {
owned_by = THIS
owner = {
in_sphere = THIS
}
}
}
}
}

This is very important, as this is what you need to actually enact the decision. is_greater_power means the nation has to be a greater power, prestige = 45 means you need more than 45 prestige, war = no is again fairly obvious.

It says SCA = { which means after that it operates under the Scandinavian country scope, which means anything there applies to scandinavia rather than the nation trying to form it. All_core is new to me, but I gather that it means "all of Scandinavia's cores". OR = { means any of the things there work, and THIS refers to the non-scandinavia nation. Owner = { is new to me as well but it means that everything within that applies to the owner of the section of Scandinavia's cores, if you get what I mean. in_sphere meaning that the owner of the cores in question needs to be in the forming nation's sphere. Moving on...

Spoiler: Code

effect = {
prestige = 20
change_tag = SCA
add_accepted_culture = swedish
add_accepted_culture = danish
add_accepted_culture = norwegian
add_accepted_culture = finnish
add_accepted_culture = icelandic
add_accepted_culture = sami
any_country = {
limit = {
NOT = {
is_greater_power = yes
}
is_culture_group = scandinavian
in_sphere = THIS
}
country_event = 11101
}
}
ai_will_do = {
factor = 1
}
}

This is what the decision actually does. change_tag = SCA turns the forming nation into Scandinavia, and the prestige and add_accepted_culture ones are fairly obvious, adding prestige and accepted cultures respectively.

any_country = { means all countries with this applying to them have this happen to them, and limit = { is new to me but I gather you can set individual limits with it, I don't really know. Anyway NOT = { means it can't be that, in this context saying the any_country cannot refer to a greater power. Then after that (you see the bracket there) it says it must be in the forming nation's sphere and be in the scandinavian culture group. I don't know the event, but it fires the event for the any_country nation.

ai_will_do is 1 or 0, and 1 means the AI will do it and 0 means it won't.


Now in EU3 you could add cores by saying add_core = provincenumber or you could do it by region, and I think doing it by region is as simple as add_core regionname. However as Victoria handles provinces differently and there are more of them I'm not really sure. If you have any questions, just ask. I doubt I've been very clear at all.

Edit:

I'm following a basic mod on how to create the country within the game, but there seems to be no tutorial on how to make a new option to unite under a new banner. I've been scouring all the unite nations .txt files and I can't make heads or tails of it. Too complex.

For this specifically what you're looking for is change_tag. Another piece of advice: I believe forming a nation while at war actually breaks the game, which is why all these nation decisions have war = no. So watch out for that.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Okay, I casually mod EU3 but own Victoria 2 so I'll see if I can help you.

Spoiler: Code

potential = {
is_culture_group = scandinavian

NOT = {
exists = SCA
}
}

We're looking at the decision for uniting Scandinavia. Right here is the potential, which means what it takes to get the decision to appear. is_culture_group = scandinavian means the nation has to be of scandinavian culture, and Not = { exists = SCA } (that's a simpler way to write it, by the way) means that Scandinavia cannot already exist. This part doesn't matter all too much.

Spoiler: Code

allow = {
is_greater_power = yes
prestige = 45
war = no
SCA = {
all_core = {
OR = {
owned_by = THIS
owner = {
in_sphere = THIS
}
}
}
}
}

This is very important, as this is what you need to actually enact the decision. is_greater_power means the nation has to be a greater power, prestige = 45 means you need more than 45 prestige, war = no is again fairly obvious.

It says SCA = { which means after that it operates under the Scandinavian country scope, which means anything there applies to scandinavia rather than the nation trying to form it. All_core is new to me, but I gather that it means "all of Scandinavia's cores". OR = { means any of the things there work, and THIS refers to the non-scandinavia nation. Owner = { is new to me as well but it means that everything within that applies to the owner of the section of Scandinavia's cores, if you get what I mean. in_sphere meaning that the owner of the cores in question needs to be in the forming nation's sphere. Moving on...

Spoiler: Code

effect = {
prestige = 20
change_tag = SCA
add_accepted_culture = swedish
add_accepted_culture = danish
add_accepted_culture = norwegian
add_accepted_culture = finnish
add_accepted_culture = icelandic
add_accepted_culture = sami
any_country = {
limit = {
NOT = {
is_greater_power = yes
}
is_culture_group = scandinavian
in_sphere = THIS
}
country_event = 11101
}
}
ai_will_do = {
factor = 1
}
}

This is what the decision actually does. change_tag = SCA turns the forming nation into Scandinavia, and the prestige and add_accepted_culture ones are fairly obvious, adding prestige and accepted cultures respectively.

any_country = { means all countries with this applying to them have this happen to them, and limit = { is new to me but I gather you can set individual limits with it, I don't really know. Anyway NOT = { means it can't be that, in this context saying the any_country cannot refer to a greater power. Then after that (you see the bracket there) it says it must be in the forming nation's sphere and be in the scandinavian culture group. I don't know the event, but it fires the event for the any_country nation.

ai_will_do is 1 or 0, and 1 means the AI will do it and 0 means it won't.


Now in EU3 you could add cores by saying add_core = provincenumber or you could do it by region, and I think doing it by region is as simple as add_core regionname. However as Victoria handles provinces differently and there are more of them I'm not really sure. If you have any questions, just ask. I doubt I've been very clear at all.

Edit:

I'm following a basic mod on how to create the country within the game, but there seems to be no tutorial on how to make a new option to unite under a new banner. I've been scouring all the unite nations .txt files and I can't make heads or tails of it. Too complex.

For this specifically what you're looking for is change_tag. Another piece of advice: I believe forming a nation while at war actually breaks the game, which is why all these nation decisions have war = no. So watch out for that.

Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for.