Where are Job Requirements Assigned?

Modding
#1

Hello!

I took a long hiatus from modding and I am starting back up again. I was looking into changing job requirements to test things, but I don’t know where the requirements are dictated. I was primarily interested in making city tier a requirement for a job, eg. make the blacksmith upgrade require city tier 2.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

#2

I think from using just .json files, you can only chose what the tool and previous job(+level) is necessary. Anything more will probably need other changes with .lua

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#3

Thank you very much for the answer, I was afraid of that. I have been looking through the .lua files but I am unable to find where the requirements are checked (e.g. causing the promote ability to be clickable). Would you happen to know which .lua files this is contained in?

#4

The interface itself is javascript .js, probably at the ui folder

#5

Thanks! I think I have it all figured out and (at least until I can get to tier 2) have it working!

#6

Okay, unfortunately it was not as easy as I had hoped. I am successfully retrieving the information I generated in the job descriptions in the promotion tree, however I don’t know how to retrieve the city tier there. I’m not extremely comfortable with javascript - this is my first time touching it, so I’m not totally sure what commands I should be using to access the tier, or where it is stored. Any advice?

#7

Without looking at it myself, I think you should check the builds unlocking system? I’m not sure. There is a group of building that unlock when you have tier 2, so maybe there is also some check in that UI.

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#8

I was thinking the same thing myself, and I went through and checked the other aspects of the UI. I thought it would be in the city_tier_success_dialog, which (I assume) updated once the tier was achieved. I found this section of code and tried to mimic it in the promotion tree,

  var achievementArr = this.get('model.data.achievements');
      var delay = 500;
      for(var i = 0; i<achievementArr.length; i++ ) {
       var achievementInfo = achievementArr[i];
         var targetBlock = this.$('#' + achievementInfo.id);
         if (targetBlock) {
            this.$('#' + achievementInfo.id).css('visibility', 'hidden');
            this.showAchievement(this.$('#' + achievementInfo.id), delay, achievementInfo.track);
            delay = delay + 1000;            
         }
      }

But when I tried using the getter, it failed at this.get(‘model.data.achievements’).

#9

As @BrunoSupremo pointed out, there’s this check on building_templates.js:

var cityTier = App.population.getCityTier(); 
.......
(more code)
.......
if (category.required_city_tier && cityTier < category.required_city_tier) {
     Ember.set(category, 'is_visible', false);
} else {
     Ember.set(category, 'is_visible', true);
}

Maybe it helps you :confused:
(the UI is tricky to mod right now)

#10

Well, that helped me out, and now it works perfectly. I feel kinda stupid for totally overlooking the building_templates file, didn’t think to look in the modes folder. Thank you very much both of you for the help!