changing 'national territory' per script

[Boernes]

I could need some help with a custom script. I want to create a custom script that changes Siam from being a sovereign nation (101% CP for Siam in every region) into a colony of someone else. I know the command for it, and I'm sure I use it the right way, because it works everywhere else (like exchange of african colonies per script etc). The command is the following:

SelectFaction = $SIA
SetColStatusArea = $Colony_Siam;$colInfluenced

Where I have the choice between: $colUnknown, $colWild, $colUnclaimed, $colInfluenced, $colProtectorate, $colColony, $colVassal, $colDominion, $colOtherNonNat, $colNational
I don't think defining a region is necessary, I tried with and without and it doesnt seem to make a difference.

The problem is that it doesnt work properly. When I tell the game to change Siams colonial status to anything else than national, it refuses to do so. It adds the status of the new owner, but Siams status supercedes it. The script log states that it didnt encounter any problems, thats what leaves me wondering.

Line 761: SelectFaction, selected: Siam
Line 762: SelectRegion, 1127 Bangkok selected (simple mode)
Line 763: SetColonialStatusArea 686 Siam Colonial status set to Influenced territory
Line 764: SelectFaction, selected: Prussia
Line 765: SelectRegion, 1127 Bangkok selected (simple mode)
Line 766: SetColonialStatusArea 686 Siam Colonial status set to Protectorate

When I try to lower Siams CP to anything below 101% (either removing 101 all at once, or at least 20) the log tells me it cant change the CP because it is already at 101%, and I should change the status of the colony/region instead (duh!)

Line 750: SelectRegion, 1127 Bangkok selected (simple mode)
Line 751: [Warning] ChgColonialPen Bangkok no change will be done, as already at 101. Change status instead

At last, just annexing Siam won't help much, it just passes the problem to the new owner, and Siams 101% CP in the capital region even remain. Also I don't want it to be annexed, I wan't it as colony so I can use the according cards

[Pocus]

Hi,

Right, the code has a loophole. When you set colonial status, lowering it, the code assumes the colonial pen is the max between the current one and the minimum required for the new status... So here it would remains at 101 in fact.

I need to check that, wait for next RC (release candidate) please.

[Boernes]

Thanks for the reply, I will wait for the RC then. Good to hear it's possible in theory, and being worked on

[Pocus]

I believe another RC will make it rather soon also.

[Sir Garnet]

On a somewhat realted topic -

(1) If part of a Protectorate or Colony is ceded in peace, does the new owner have the same status level etc? Is the disability that only the owner of the capital region can play a card to create a Colony from a Protectorate?

(2) It appears that regions can be shifted from one adjacent colonial area to another (e.g., in a peace treaty) by modding the area definitions in the files to link the regions to the new area. This would be in Africa. Any obvious red flags to this approach?

[Boernes]

Has there been a code-change in the latest RC3?

[Pocus]

Has there been a code-change in the latest RC3?

Yes it should work now.

[Pocus]

On a somewhat realted topic -

(1) If part of a Protectorate or Colony is ceded in peace, does the new owner have the same status level etc? Is the disability that only the owner of the capital region can play a card to create a Colony from a Protectorate?

(2) It appears that regions can be shifted from one adjacent colonial area to another (e.g., in a peace treaty) by modding the area definitions in the files to link the regions to the new area. This would be in Africa. Any obvious red flags to this approach?

(1) yes. I don't understand the second part, sorry.

(2) should be safe

[Sir Garnet]

(1) yes. I don't understand the second part, sorry.

If part of a protectorate is ceded, and then the owner of most of the protectorate area plays a Colony card in the colonial capital to make the rest of it a Colony - will the ceded area remain a protectorate, become a colony of its other owner, or revert to the owner of the colonial capital (which is the only place a Colony card may be played).

[Christophe.Barot]

Yes it should work now.

tried that in Egypt, didn't work, but ... there is a Colony_Siam, or Morocco and not a Colony_Egypt (nor Persia, I guess ? , will check)

I'll tinker with database colony and will try the command again

thanks anyway Pocus - hope it works

[Christophe.Barot]

I have an example of how the system works with split colonies

in a peace treaty China ceded part of Sin kiang , including capital , to me (was too happy to have peace after yearS of unending war without even being able to propose to China - real vast to occupy, believe me - even if it was an awesome training field for Russian generals - Potoliko ended with 5-6-6 and 4-5-5 became rather common, for utter joy of Ottoman and other Serb-hostile Austrians) - when a revolt occurs in one of their remaining Sinkiang provinces, and I take area back from rebels, it belongs to me, else it remains theirs and I can't move there - first to crush revolters annex

Hope it helps you to figure out system process