Decline Battle VP Penalty Modification Possible?

[Jack]

In the game files is there a way to modify the VP penalty when declining these small engagements?

[seawolf]

Yeah, in the warinfo file there’s a DeclinePenalty= line

[Jack]

May 5, 2020 13:03:01 GMT -6 seawolf said:

Yeah, in the warinfo file there’s a DeclinePenalty= line

Thanks, this info is gold.

Is it enough to remove/reduce them for the player faction warinfo file only?

[aeson]

The player-faction WarInfo file is to the best of my knowledge the only WarInfo file that is relevant to the specific game that you're playing, so yes, that's the only WarInfo file you'd need to modify, but there are also 'generic' battles defined for most or all of the possessions in the MapData files, so no, that's not the only file you'd need to modify - you'll also have to modify the decline penalties for the possession battles in the MapData files.

I would strongly advise creating a backup copy of the original version of any WarInfo and MapData files that you choose to modify.

[Jack]

May 5, 2020 19:34:11 GMT -6 aeson said:

The player-faction WarInfo file is to the best of my knowledge the only WarInfo file that is relevant to the specific game that you're playing, so yes, that's the only WarInfo file you'd need to modify, but there are also 'generic' battles defined for most or all of the possessions in the MapData files, so no, that's not the only file you'd need to modify - you'll also have to modify the decline penalties for the possession battles in the MapData files.

I would strongly advise creating a backup copy of the original version of any WarInfo and MapData files that you choose to modify.

Modify decline penalties in the player warinfo and in the mapdata of the save and make a backup, got it. Thanks for the instructions.

[Jack]

I set all declinepenalty=0 in the data/ playerfaction warinfo, in the data/mapdata.dat, and also tried data/mapdata1900.dat because I started the campaign in 1900. In the save/mapdata1.dat I couldn´t find anything that seems to be connected to decline penalties.

No luck however, decline penalties still present. Can somebody please give advice on what I am missing here.

[Jack]

In the warinfo I tried 0,1,-1 for declinebattle=, I tried to remove the line, I tried to mod the value for "attackingside", nothing

Decline penalties are still there.

[seawolf]

Fredrik W would it be possible to give us some help here?

[Jack]

Did someone meanwhile figure out how to mod the decline penalties?

It is the only thing that is keeping me away from playing this game

[Jack]

Is there another way to do a mod that allows the player faction to decline battles without VP penalty?