Ravage the Land - Orc counsellor action

[jj248]

A more brutal conversion action available to orcs.

Converts both culture and religion at cost of much higher revolt risk and drop in control and development.

Should have some associated random events to represent pillaging, looting etc. Once artifact system is in, random loot could be given in inventories.

[jj248]

Pushing this to v3.0. Might as well wait for the artefact system to be in place to implement it!

[Kyrenic]

A prototype for this has now been made, it still needs custom events and county modifiers but the basis is there. As mentioned in issue #469 , this is an expansion of base game mechanics, not a removal.

[Kyrenic]

Councillor tasks have been reworked a bit and are locked depending on the race of the character.

Orcs

Orcs can:

• Ravage the land (Converts culture and faith)

Orcs cannot:

• Promote culture
• Promote cultural acceptance

Humans

Humans can:

• Promote culture
• Promote cultural acceptance

Humans cannot:

• Ravage the land

Restricted cultures

Think of characters like Sauron, the Nazgul, Saruman and the like, unique cultures not meant to be present on the map.

Restricted cultures cannot

• Ravage the land
• Promote culture
• Promote cultural acceptance

[RoughlyTheSizeOfAMOROOON]

For Elves, I'm perhaps thinking that they should only be able to do promote cultural acceptance, except perhaps counties that were traditionally Elven lands but have since been lost. In which case, maybe a decision to get Elves back in that land?

Sure you can play as an expansionist Elf, but I'd imagine that even IF we get a cultural conversion stuff for Elves, it should take literal centuries for a single county. Thus making getting your cultural acceptance high far more attractive.

[Kyrenic]

I think Elves should fade, slowly over the course of about 100 years after Sauron's death. Maybe we could make events to slowly feed Elvish lands to the wilderness?

[jj248]

This is probably done and ready to test.

[JukeJukestar]

• There is no description of what the task will do ("increase development" here for comparison)
• There are no special random events associated with it right now. There should probably be negative events (bad steward) where popular opinion decreases heavily, control growth becomes worse.. on the other hand, positive events with the opposite effect.
• Has no effects other than converting culture and religion, perhaps using it could decrease development a bit every month, with the effect being lesser when you have a better steward.

Moving this to release critical mechanics since its an unifinished mechanic we dont want to forget implementing!

[jj248]

OK - I've added more to this. Should now display effects and have its own exclusively negative side effects. I've removed the development reduction while I think on how best to implement.

[jj248]

County development reduction done - made it by half (rounded down) for now.

Ready to test for feedback.

[Jauffr]

The changes are functioning as of now. The differences between levels of stewardship are minor and the AI rarely decides to do this on mass at the moment

with an 11 stewardship steward

with 17 stewardship ![Uploading Screenshot 2023-02-23 175635.png…]()

with 30 stewardship

[jj248]

Seems fine to me. Closing.