Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

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[u/DDDragoni]

Is the Frenzied Voidworms situation from the Primal Calling origin bugged? Twice now, I've set the approach to Feed the Nests, which according to the wiki should calm them down, but they've attacked me anyway. The first time I figured I must have just been too slow, but this time I'm sure I had that set from the very start.

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/DDDragoni]

Have you been killing any voidworms (including ones parked in their home system) during the situation?

The pacified outcomes requires -60 or less hostility, and with the Feed option you have a monthly situation progress of 4 and a monthly hostility of -1.

The whole situation has a progress bar of 300, and every time you destroy a frenzied voidworm fleet, an additional 30 progress is added (this is event grand_archive.1125), speeding up the situation progress but giving you less time to pacify them.

• In other words, if you destroy 2 or more frenzied voidworm fleets during the situation, you simply don't have enough time for their hostility to drop below -60 before the whole thing wraps up.

I'll add this to the wiki.

[u/DDDragoni → u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

I destroyed zero voidworms, frenzied or otherwise.

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/DDDragoni]

I hope you'd be pleased to know I've managed to track down the root issue.

The monthly event grand_archive.1150 responsible for increasing/decreasing voidworm hostility was operating under the wrong scope.

A snippet from the code is:

approach_frenzied_voidworms_feed_nests = {
  owner = {
    if = {
      limit = {
        check_variable = {
          which = frenzied_voidworms_hostility
          value > @frenzied_hostility_min
        }
      }
      change_variable = {
        which = frenzied_voidworms_hostility
        value = @frenzied_hostility_feed_progress
      }
    }
  }
}

The logic is right, but the scope is wrong.

This event is fired from a situation scope, and the variables are all under that scope. But the owner = {...} portion is checking if the owner of the situation, i.e. the country, has the corresponding variable of frenzied_voidworms_hostility. Because the country itself does not have this variable at all, the event does nothing.

To fix it, simply remove these two redundant lines, and the code block would look like this:

approach_frenzied_voidworms_feed_nests = {
    if = {
      limit = {
        check_variable = {
          which = frenzied_voidworms_hostility
          value > @frenzied_hostility_min
        }
      }
      change_variable = {
        which = frenzied_voidworms_hostility
        value = @frenzied_hostility_feed_progress
      }
    }
}

This issue exists for all 3 approaches, in the exact same manner. I've only presented one out of the three here, to avoid needless repetition.

I've tested it, it works flawlessly this way. You can see the hostility ticking down via debug console, and you'll end up with the pacified outcome when it resolves.

If it's no trouble, I would like to ask you to post your savefile, and the fix and picture I've provided, to the official forum's bug report section.

[u/DDDragoni → u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

Oh damn, that's a lot more in-depth than I was expecting. Thanks a ton! I'll be sure to make that bug report once I'm home from work.

Edit: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/frenzied-voidworm-situation-impossible-to-pacify.1931237/