Priests In Utrecht

[Member of the Shieldwall]

I started a campaign as Utrecht, and their Reformers and later, Protestant Churches, allow them to create Priests. So, I made a few. However, they all have the Catholic trait and they SEEM to be spreading Catholicism, which is the opposite of what I want them to do!

Am I doing something wrong?

Amazing mod by the way. It's not been totally stable for me, but it's so atmospheric and crammed full of features that I keep coming back to it anyway :]

[Member of the Shieldwall]

Sorry for the double post. Ok, I walked one of them out of the city and the unit on the map is named "Dutch Pastor". I must be imagining things about the conversion effect, I guess. Are the characters being called Priests (and the Catholic trait) in the character menus a hardcoded thing?

[Gigantus]

Utrecht is the Sicily faction which is set to 'orthodox' religion in descr_sm_faction which means the religion is fine and the priests spread that faith.

I haven't been able to find a 'catholic' trait - can you copy the text from the trait's description and the trait's full name? Possible a trigger not properly defined might have caused this.

[Member of the Shieldwall]

I hope this helps, and that it's what you were asking for

[Gigantus]

I followed it up and it appears to be a logic issue in the design of the trigger for the trait. It will not change the original religion.

You can edit the export_descr_character_traits.txt file (opens with Notepad) to make the necessary changes by adding the blue lines. Existing traits will not change, it only affects new characters. Make a backup of the file before you work on it:

Trigger Katholik
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    
    Condition Trait Protestant < 1
        and CharacterReligion catholic

    Affects Katholik 1  Chance  50

;--------------------------------------------
Trigger Protestant
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    
    Condition Trait Katholik < 1
        and CharacterReligion orthodox

    Affects Protestant 1  Chance  50

I think the idea was to mimic that within the same faction sometimes opposing beliefs were held, which in the case of priests can be confusing.

[Member of the Shieldwall]

Wow, you work fast. Thanks!

[Gigantus]

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