Fortress Acquisition

This mod adds functionality that mimics how Civil War repopulates forts after being cleared.

This mod itself does nothing, but it allows modders to add this functionality to their own locations without having to write new scripts or quests.

After clearing the location of bandits/wizards/etc., exiting the area will begin a quest to replace the monsters with Imperial/Stormcloak Troopers

Depends on the owner of the holder. If you keep changing owners, clearing the soldier and leaving again will cause the location to switch sides.

It can be previewed by downloading Fort Takeovers - Fort Fellhammer.

For modders, all you need to do is:

• Add the FTFort keyword to the location
• Make sure the location has a vanilla reservation as its parent

-Set the monster's location reference type to FTMonster and the soldier to FTSoldier

• npcs and any objects bound to monsters or soldiers should have their enabled parent set to FTEnableMarker (Imperial/Sons/Monster) [Internal/External]

or they are not affected by this mod (all flags are optional, several versions were added for convenience)

• Add a marker with the reference type for that location
• Monster markers should be initially enabled, while faction markers should be initially disabled

That’s all! If anything is unclear, please let me know. If there are any errors, please let me know!

If you would like to test or provide more information about the error, download the Fort Takeovers (beta) build, perform the steps that produced the error, and send the log file to "C:\Users\Colton Kenney\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Logs\Scripts\Users". Make sure Papyrus login is turned on!

Many thanks to rubenvd7 for the guidance and initial testing.

Many thanks to Pickysaurus for the Papyrus Logger Scripts, which are very useful in debugging and are included in the beta version.

To do:

• Automatically switch occupying soldiers if they keep changing hands while not affected by seasons
• Sharing enabled flag
• Siege?
• Custom retention/parent location?
• Custom faction?
• Ability to set exceptions for each function
• other? Let me know!

limit:

• Up to 32 FTMonsters in one location
• Up to 64 FTSoldiers in one location

Mod ideas:

• Missing soldiers, their positions are permanently clear
• Set the Civil War Soldier as FTMonster and set it as FTSoldier for a mod that allows Telmor to conquer Skyrim
• Single, initially disabled but alive, FTMonster is killed when the player completes certain conditions

Upgrade location to Soldier Enabled Marker

When the player leaves the area, the location will automatically upgrade

I'm excited to see what people come up with!

Includes script source.

I started with vanilla Skyrim reading and copying the Civil War script.

If you are interested:

• CWFortObserver task
• CWScript
• CWGarrisonResetQuest01

Then I removed anything that was obviously outdated or redundant (a lot of it was related to cutting content, as seen in Open Civil War).

Currently relying on CW to query owner information.

I chose not to use vanilla scripts for compatibility so I can learn more.

I don't see any mods that do this (except Tactical Valthiem, but that's not dynamic or related to Civil War) so I'm hoping I fill a hole in the Skyrim mod with this mod. If not let me know.

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This mod adds functionality to mimic how the civil war repopulates forts after being cleared.

This mod by itself does nothing, but it allows modders to add this functionality to their own locations without writing new scripts or quests.

After clearing out the location of bandits/necromancers/etc, leaving the area will start a quest that replaces the monsters with imperial/stormcloak soldiers

depending on the owner of the hold. If the hold changes owners, clearing out the soldiers and leaving again will make the location switch sides.

It can be previewed by downloading Fort Takeovers - Fort Fellhammer.

For modders all you need to do is:

• add the FTFor …