Short Wagon Losers go to School (Training / Tutoring)
Tired of watching the loser kids in all prominent families take the short wagon to school knowing that some day, this generation of idiots will be in charge, and the whole Republic will go to Dīs?
Well, now you can do something about it. Hire some fancy Greek tutors to get these losers whipped into shape. Or, maybe one of these fools was already a chariot-riding CHADius at age 8, but can’t tell Jupiter from Venus, and thinks the Pythagorean theorem is for sissies? You can do something about that too, with a little compulsory advanced education!
This mod will add four new buttons to the character interaction view, one for each attribute. They should only be visible and enabled on the following conditions:
– Adults under age 23
– The skill needs to be 12 or below
– They can’t already hold a job, appointment, or be a prisoner
– Only one skill may be trained at a time
– Cannot be dead (although, they can be nearly brain-dead)
Starting this process will start a new "training" scheme (aborting and replacing the current, if any) which takes 350 days to complete. After completion, the selected skill will rise 0 to 3 points (it should tend towards the lower end, I think).
Since this is the Republic’s "recommendation", there is a trivial political favor and tyranny cost for this coercion, as well as some gold to pay for the fancy Greeks. If someone under 23 is given a job, they’ll be ineligible for training while they have the job. This discourages (but does not disallow) younger characters from being appointed for high level positions.
To make this easier to manage, there are a number of UI changes pictured in screenshots:
– You should get an alert when a character is eligible to train.
– A small book icon on the character’s portrait when viewing the filterable character list (click on the alert to go there). Use the search filter settings pictured in the screenshots, with younger adult characters sorted first.
– Another larger book icon will be displayed for characters that are currently in training, when you’re selecting a new governor or military commander. This is helpful so you don’t accidentally appoint your CHADius as Legatus while he’s still learning to count higher than VII.
This is a somewhat powerful mod so although I balanced it with some penalties, it’s kinda a modest cheat, depending on how heavily you decide to use it.
Finally, since it already modifies the UI, this mod also includes the "Make Prominence Show Again" mod I already uploaded. I don’t think they’ll conflict, but you should be able to uninstall the other mod if something seems off.
