A little modding help please

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Herode

Maybe one of you could save me time, guys, so I ask my question here :
I am trying to set a simple map for some tests. In province #50 I want to set a commander with some earth gems. Unfortunately, I'm unable to find the related command ^^. Can anyone point me to the clue ?

AFAIK, there is no way to grant gems to an AI unit with map commands. That said, it seems that the game will (sometimes?) give gems appropriate to the paths on a given map-placed AI commander.

You could perhaps achieve the desired effect by granting the unit a bloodstone...but you wouldn't have any control over the # of gems, and of course they'd get a +1E bonus.

[Herode]

OK, thanks for the tips !

BTW, the commander I want to set is one I will use for tests, it is not intended to be governed by IA. I worked around the problem by setting a magic site with a 5E gems income (the Forges of Ulm) in the province where my commander stands. But I may have missed something else because the spell he has to use (set with the #startspell command) fails to work :
- on turn 1, the spell is is the list of available spells but the mage does not want to cast it although he has the path for it
- on turn 2, the spell has disappeared form the list of available spells...

My test is an Epic Fail

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Herode

OK, thanks for the tips !

BTW, the commander I want to set is one I will use for tests, it is not intended to be governed by IA. I worked around the problem by setting a magic site with a 5E gems income (the Forges of Ulm) in the province where my commander stands.

Not sure what you're testing, but just having a magic site in the same province will not transfer those gems into the commander's inventory. For instance, note that your capitol's gem income goes into your magic item treasury, not into any commanders' inventory that happen to be in the capitol.

For that purpose (putting gems in your magic treasury), your gem producing site could be basically anywhere in your empire (as long as the site is a known site.)

BTW, one other way you could get gems into your commander's inventory (but it would affect *all* units of that type, not just the one commander) would be to mod the unit using the #gemprod command. In that case, they'll generate a set amount per turn.