Story Progression Prom Settings Aren't Working

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Theapoo2
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Story Progression Prom Settings Aren't Working

Post by Theapoo2 » July 15th, 2019, 2:21 am

Hello,

I have done some testing in my game and am finding that my Prom settings in Story Progression aren't having an effect. I first noticed this when I set the chance of Prom to 100 and the cooldown to maybe a day or so, and still no proms were being announced. I found that I can force Prom using Debug Enabler, but for me that feels less "natural", so I wanted to test a little bit more.

I made an XML tuning mod, modifiying the PromSituation XML, and set kCooldown Time to 1 and kChanceofSchedulingProm to 1.00. I put the mod in the packages folder in my Mods folder. All of my Nraas mods are in my Overrides folder, which I've set to a higher priority than the packages folder. When I loaded up my game, Prom was announced. But this time I wasn't sure if was because of the tuning XML or StoryProgression. I thought that maybe SP was still calling the prom after sort of "checking" that the default settings allowed Prom as well. I don't know. :?

I did another experiment and this time I made several changes. I went back into the XML tuning mod and changed kNumberOfDaysForAnnouncement to 2. This would cause a conflict with my Story Progression settings because in my game it is currently Wednesday, and I only allow Proms on the weekends. So if the tuning file was overriding the SP settings, then prom would be set for Friday, even though that goes against my SP settings.

Then I loaded up my save from Tuesday evening in game, not Wednesday, because I have the SP Situations manager set to 1000, and I wanted to allow the manager enough time to work. Also, in the save game in which the day is already Wednesday, Prom may have already been set to be called on that day regardless of any changes in settings, and I wanted to exclude that possibility. When I loaded up my Tuesday save game, I set my SP Prom settings to be the opposite of my tuning file settings. I set the chance of Prom in SP to 0 and I set the cooldown to 100 days. I assumed that if everything is working properly, the SP Prom settings should override my tuning file settings and no prom should be called at all.

Well, 1) Prom was announced, and 2) Prom was announced for Friday, and my SP settings only allow Proms on Saturdays and Sundays. It seems that I may not be the only one whose SP Prom settings aren't working because I did a search on this website and back in April someone posted about the opposite situation: they were trying to stop Proms using SP but they were happening anyway.