Modding: event not triggering

[Collins]

I attempted to create a province_event similar to the Synthetic province occupation event, but the event I made fails to trigger. Through the console I tried commands "event" and "testevent" and even though the conditions are met, no occupied province flips to my desired tag
EDIT: without the console.
Any ideas? Has it something to do with the casus belli? I'd figure it doesn't...

My event file:

namespace = myhorde

province_event = {
	id = myhorde.1
	title = "myhorde.1.t"
	desc = "myhorde.1.d"
	
	picture = SYNTHETICS_eventPicture
	
	is_triggered_only = yes
	
	trigger = {
		owner = {
			NOT = { tag = MGE }
		}
		controller = {
			tag = MGE
		}
	}
	immediate = {
		hidden_effect = {
			cede_province = MGE
			add_core = MGE
			set_base_tax = 2
			set_base_production = 2
			set_base_manpower = 2
		}
	}
	option = {
		name = "myhorde.1.a"
	}
}

[grotaclas]

How are you triggering the event? You have "is_triggered_only = yes", so it doesn't happen randomly. IIRC the synthetics event is triggered through an on_action

[RCMidas]

Just to be sure, you've fully created the nation for the tag MGE as well, yes? Nothing missing from it?

[Collins]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

How are you triggering the event? You have "is_triggered_only = yes", so it doesn't happen randomly. IIRC the synthetics event is triggered through an on_action

I did a copy-paste initially, and the synths do have the same trigger condition

is_triggered_only = yes

[Collins]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Just to be sure, you've fully created the nation for the tag MGE as well, yes? Nothing missing from it?

That is the tag for the Mongol empire, and in testing the event with a custom nation the tag D00 also worked with a manual console triggering of the event.
I am at a loss, as other mods like the 1356 start date have similar events with similar triggers for example ai Timurids expansion in persia.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Collins:

Originally posted by grotaclas:

How are you triggering the event? You have "is_triggered_only = yes", so it doesn't happen randomly. IIRC the synthetics event is triggered through an on_action

I did a copy-paste initially, and the synths do have the same trigger condition

is_triggered_only = yes

Yes. That means that the event is not triggered automatically. Instead there is some other code which triggers the event. Search for the event id of the synthetics event in all the game files and you will learn more.
The same applies to the modded events if they have is_triggered_only.

BTW: you should make sure that your event doesn't fully annex a country which has subjects. Otherwise they become your subjects and at least in some circumstances, this doesn't end the war and you will be at war with your new subjects and this can crash the game. At least that's what I have seen with the synthetics.

[Collins]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Originally posted by Collins:

I did a copy-paste initially, and the synths do have the same trigger condition

is_triggered_only = yes

Yes. That means that the event is not triggered automatically. Instead there is some other code which triggers the event. Search for the event id of the synthetics event in all the game files and you will learn more.
The same applies to the modded events if they have is_triggered_only.

BTW: you should make sure that your event doesn't fully annex a country which has subjects. Otherwise they become your subjects and at least in some circumstances, this doesn't end the war and you will be at war with your new subjects and this can crash the game. At least that's what I have seen with the synthetics.

Thank you, I was unsure what that condition did, but I commented it out and the event triggered!

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Collins:

Thank you, I was unsure what that condition did, but I commented it out and the event triggered!

This is probably not the best solution. This makes it an MTTH event and I think it gets a default MTTH of 1 month. So it doesn't trigger immediately and it might not trigger at all. And AFAIK the game checks the trigger every 20 days for each province which could have a performance impact