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trigger · has_enough_influence_for_leadership

Definition

  • Supported scope:COUNTRY
  • Supported target:any

Description

Checks if the current country has enough political influence to become faction leader

### Examples

TAG = { has_enough_influence_for_leadership = yes }

Hands-On Notes

Hands-on notes are AI-generated and checked against the vanilla command vocabulary — treat them as a starting point, not authoritative reference. The definition above is the game's own documentation.

Hands-On Usage

Commonly used in faction-related focuses or decisions to restrict only countries that have accumulated sufficient political influence from triggering the "seize faction leadership" option, preventing weaker nations from unexpectedly becoming leaders. For example, in a mod competing for Asian hegemony, you can use it to preserve the logic of leadership competition:

available = {
    has_enough_influence_for_leadership = yes
    faction_influence_rank = { rank < 2 }
}

Synergy

  • [faction_influence_rank](/wiki/trigger/faction_influence_rank): Often used together; the former checks whether an absolute threshold of "qualification" is met, while the latter further restricts the country's relative ranking within the faction. Using both in combination allows precise control over leadership competition conditions.
  • [faction_influence_ratio](/wiki/trigger/faction_influence_ratio): Used to check influence percentage. Pairing with this trigger covers both "reaching threshold" and "leading in ratio" dimensions of judgment simultaneously.
  • [add_faction_influence_score](/wiki/effect/add_faction_influence_score): When conditions are not met, you can use this in the effect block to supplement influence score, guiding AI or players to accumulate influence before competing for leadership.
  • [create_faction](/wiki/effect/create_faction): Before creating a new faction, you typically need to confirm the country already has sufficient influence. Pairing with this trigger can serve as a prerequisite gate for faction creation.

Common Pitfalls

  1. Incorrect scope: This trigger is only valid under COUNTRY scope. If used in STATE or CHARACTER scope, it will silently fail or throw an error. Always verify that the outer block's scope is a country.
  2. Mistaking it for parameterizable: Newcomers sometimes try writing has_enough_influence_for_leadership = { value = X } to customize the threshold, but this trigger only accepts yes. The threshold value is determined by the game's internal logic and does not support manual value specification.