Plans on Annexation/Core Events cleanup

[mechu1205]

Issues with the current implmentations

• These events/decisions are all over the place
  • e.g. Russian Fate of Persia is in Russia/Russian Frontiers.txt while the generic one is in Others/Annexations.txt
• Only a handful of nations can access Fate of ~ decisions for various parts of the world. Others can only make puppets in these areas by manually liberating tags. Often nations liberated manually and nations released via decisions would have different cores. This can lead to strips of lands being left here and there, causing some serious bordergore.
  • e.g. Liberating Russia manually will leave out some land in Karelia)
• The way addcore events work is quite inconsistent.
  • Greece can get cores on its claims along the Aegean coast if they can control them, without any other requirements.
  • Republican Turkey can never get cores on the Aegean Isles, unless they were created by the Coup event. You can't, for instance, conquer OTT, release TUR, and give away Rhodes to it, expecting it to core it.

Plans

1. Set up some policies regarding different types of addcore events, and decide which cases should grant cores more easily than other cases. These should be based on the "legitimacy" each nation should have on ruling various regions. This legitimacy would be determined by:
   • whether the country ever/recently held control of the region in question
     • e.g. RUS/SOV and Ukraine, VIC and mainland France
   • whether there are a significant population of the same ethnic/cultural in that region
     • e.g. FRA/VIC/U08 and Alsace-Lorraine, Chinese warlords and China Proper
   • whether there are any historical/KR-lore context for the people in that region to accept the rule of the nation
     • e.g. U24/U25 and its territories outside Austria
   • game balance reasons
   • etc.
2. Set up different "types" of addcore events. A rough sketchout:
   • cores exist right away from the start of the game (without actually controlling them)
   • cores only granted if you make a specific decision
     • POL should not gain cores on Lithuania (even if they control it) unless they have chose to form the Polish-Lithuanian Union
   • cores are given after you control the province for <1yr
     • SAU/EGY and the Arabian regions (Egypt, Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Syria, Mesopotamia)
   • cores are given after you control the province for 5~10 yrs
     • MEX and its claims on USA
   • you get claims, but can never core them
     • RUS/SOV and Poland/Finland/Istanbul. (currently RUS can get cores, but I intend to remove them)
3. Design the set of "generic" Annexation events and their options.
   • Some options must be conditional: syndicalists should not be able to liberate RUS and non-syndicalists should not release SOV.
   • Some decisions must precede others: If you control both European Russia and Central Asia, Fate of Central Asia should be blocked until you decide on the Fate of Russia; this ensures players (both human and AI) to release RUS/SOV, and then feed Central Asia to them w/o any complicated mechanics or manual labor.
   • The dissent penalty should be lower for smaller regions; it makes little sense that occupying Montenegro should raise the same amount of dissent as occupying France would.
   • These generic events should be available to (if possible) all nations, except for their native nations (of course), and the "specific" cases discussed below.
4. Define the "specific" decisions that are allowed only to limited nations, in limited regions. These decisions might:
   • enable unique options
     • AUS and Germany: Create a new German Empire, under the leadership of Vienna!
   • have different AI chances
     • RUS/SOV should have higher chance to occupy Finland/Poland.
   • and/or grant lower dissent penalties for occupation
5. Gather and organize these events in a set of files. A rough sketch:
   • All Annexation (Fate of ~) events go to Other/Annexations.txt.
   • All follow-up events for the liberated nations (Initial army, cabinet setups, elections, etc.) go to Other/Liberations.txt (new file)
   • All addcore events go to Other/Cores.txt unless they fall under this category.

   • cores only granted if you make a specific decision
     • POL should not gain cores on Lithuania (even if they control it) unless they have chose to form the Polish-Lithuanian Union

Lookouts

• Event ID availability: Make sure there are no duplicate ids. The grep command would be my friend here.
• Loopholes: We don't want any events to pop up where they shouldn't.
  • consider cases where the same region is annexed/liberated multiple times
• Local flags and Global flags: these can easily cause unwanted loopholes.
  • I've seen some follow-up events for "liberate" options in annexation events setting flags. Inconsistency between nations liberated manually and nations liberated via event is undesired.

[mechu1205]

Plans: Europe

Swiss

• Requisites
  • is not: SCH
  • own: Bern
  • not exist: SCH
• Options

Req.	Action	Effect	AI Chance
is GER1 and owns Zurich	Keep Zurich, liberate the rest		70
is ITA/RSI and owns Lugano	Keep Lugano, liberate the rest		70
is FRA/VIC/U08 and owns Geneva	Keep Geneva(Romandy), liberate the rest		70
2	Liberate SCH		30
	Occupation	dissent +5%	0

1) might add AUS and/or German minor states 2) Ger/Ita/... are intentionally not blocked from taking this option

Northern France

• Requisites:

  • is not: FRA/VIC/U08/U21/U22
  • own: Paris
  • not at war against: Normandy (U21), Brittany (U22)
  • not exists: FRA/U08

• Options

Req.	Action	Effect	AI Chance
allied to VIC	give to VIC		100
not GER/RUS/EUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U08		80
not GER/RUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and U21/U22 does not exist and owns Caen/Rennes	Liberate U08, U21, U22	set local flag partition_fra	20
is GER and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Keep disputed territories and Liberate U08 (GER variant)		50
is GER and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and U21/U22 does not exist and owns Caen/Rennes	Keep disputed territories and Liberate U08, U21, U22 (GER variant)	set local flag partition_fra	50
is GER and not allied to VIC/U08 and not in Entente and is not at war against VIC	offer VIC their land for alliance	40% acceptance if allied to U07/CAN, 90% if not	5
is RUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U08 (RUS variant)	cabinet depends on flag RUS_TSAR	50
is RUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and U21/U22 does not exist and owns Caen/Rennes	Liberate U08, U21, U22 (RUS variant)	set local flag partition_fra	50
is RUS and not allied to VIC/U08 and not in Entente and is not at war against VIC	offer VIC their land for alliance	40% acceptance if allied to U07/CAN, 90% if not	5
is EUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U08		20
is EUS and not allied to VIC and not in Entente and is not at war against VIC	offer VIC their land for alliance	40% acceptance if allied to U07/CAN, 90% if not	80
in Entente and VIC does not exist	Liberate VIC		100
in Entente and VIC exists and not allied to VIC	Liberate U08		100
not allied to VIC/U08 and not in Entente and Syndicalist	Liberate FRA		100
not allied to VIC/FRA and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U08		100
	Occupation	dissent +15%	0

• All options that does NOT set partition_fra, clears partition_fra (if already had it)
• U21 and U22 are currently blocked in order to reduce headaches
• TODO: seperate decisions for U21 and U22

Occitania (Southern France)

• Requisites:
  • is not: FRA/U08/VIC/U23
  • not own Paris (i.e. blocked if Fate of Northern France is available and not decided)
  • not war against: FRA/U08
  • not (VIC owns Paris and at war against VIC)
  • not exists: U23 (Occitania)
  • own: Toulouse
• Options

Req.	Action	Effect	AI Chance
allied to either FRA/VIC/U08 which controls Paris and not has local flag partition_fra	Give to Ally FRA/VIC/U08 (whomever controls Paris)		100
allied to either FRA/VIC/U08 which controls Paris and has local flag partition_fra	Give to Ally FRA/VIC/U08 (whomever controls Paris)	clear partition_fra	20
has local flag partition_fra	Liberate U23	clear partition_fra	80
in Entente and VIC does not exist and not allied to U08 and not allied to FRA	Liberate VIC		100
not in Entente and not Syndicalist and U08 does not exist and not allied to VIC and not allied to FRA	Liberate U08		100
not in Entente and Syndicalist and FRA does not exist and not allied to VIC and not allied to U08	Liberate FRA		100
in Entente and VIC exists and not allied to VIC	Liberate U23		1
not in Entente and not Syndicalist and U08 exists and not allied to U08	Liberate U23		1
not in Entente and Syndicalist and FRA exists and not allied to FRA	Liberate U23		1
	Occupation	dissent +10%	0

Britain

• Requisites:
  • is not: CAN/U07/ENG/U16(England)/SCO/U17(Wales)
  • own: London
  • not exists: ENG/U07/U16

Req.	Action	Effect	AI Chance
allied to CAN and U07 does not exist	Return to CAN		100
in Entente and CAN does not exist	Liberate U07	Brit royal family	100
not GER/RUS/ITA/EUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U07	U07_REP_NAME	85
not GER/RUS/ITA/EUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh	Liberate U16/SCO	Wales to U16	10
not GER/RUS/ITA/EUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh/Cardiff	Liberate U16/SCO/U17		5
is GER and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U07 (GER variant)		85
is GER and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh	Liberate U16/SCO (GER variant)	Wales to U16	10
is GER and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh/Cardiff	Liberate U16/SCO/U17 (RUS variant)		5
is RUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U07 (RUS variant)		85
is RUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh	Liberate U16/SCO (RUS variant)	Wales to U16	10
is RUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh/Cardiff	Liberate U16/SCO/U17 (RUS variant)		5
is ITA/EUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist	Liberate U07 (Catholic variant)		85
is ITA/EUS and not in Entente and not Syndicalist and owns Edinburgh	Liberate U16/SCO (Catholic variant)	Wales to U16	10
not in Entente and Syndicalist	Liberate ENG		100
	Occupation	dissent +20%	100

• SCO and U17 are currently blocked in order to reduce headaches
• TODO: seperate decisions for SCO and U17

Ireland

• blocked by fate of britain

Bulgaria

• Requisites:
  • is not: BUL
  • own: Sofia
  • not exists: BUL
• Options

Req.	Action	Effect	AI Chance
is SER/YUG	Keep North Macedonia, liberate the rest		100
is OTT/TUR	Keep Eastern Rumelia, liberate the rest		100
is ROM/URU	Keep Dobrich, liberate the rest		100
is GRE	Keep the Aegean coastline, liberate the rest		100
is none of the above	Liberate BUL		0
	Occupation	dissent +5%	0

Romania

• Requisites:
  • is not: ROM/URU
  • own: Bucharest
  • not exists: ROM/URU