Retroactive Ambitions

Annoyed that selecting weapon masteries too early locks you out of the related ambition?  Seethe with frustration that finding a legendary weapon means you can't get credit for it?  Aggravated that having a large roster can actually lock you out of the ambition to get a large roster?

This mod is for you.

This mod removes any restrictions on ambitions that relate to previous progress.  Naturally, if you've already fulfilled the requirements for an ambition and then select it, you will immediately complete it.  If that feels weird to you, don't use this mod.

This mod also re-enables the Cart and Wagon ambitions for Blazing Deserts.  This means you can both buy the upgrades from the retinue and get the old ambitin bonuses.  This is cheat-y, and if you don't like it, the bottom of this document will tell you how to configure this mod to your liking.  I'm doing it this way instead of making separate versions because it's easier to maintain this way.

I otherwise did not change the prerequisites for ambitions triggering.  Many ambitions are gated behind other ambitions, days elapsed, relations with nobles, and other stuff.  I didn't touch these.

With one exception.  The "collect all types of food" requires your men to have a bad average mood.   You only got offered ambitions after clearing the previous ambition, and clearing ambitions gives all of your men a large mood boost.  This is a really weird requirement and most people will never even see this ambition as a result. I didn't even suspect that it existed until I started working on this mod.  So I removed this condition.

Now, Overhype didn't lock out these ambitions because they are mean and spiteful.  Your ambition queue can and will get clogged with low level ambitions, and it feels weird to be offered quests that you've already finished.  This mod is for people who don't care about that and just want to see all the content.  Don't worry, once you formally complete an ambition, it goes away forever.  I didn't change that.

This mod uses a modhook method shared with me by AdamMil01.  It should have a high degree of compatibility with other mods, including ones that alter ambitions.  Code was developed by Adam, all I did was copy it.

I, uh, am not very good with mod hooks.  So for the "Have all provisions", "Cart", and "Wagon" ambitions, I just hardcoded in replacements.  This means that if you somehow have a mod that affects these ambitions, there will be a conflict.  But probably no one will make a mod about the provisions ambition, and the cart and wagon ambitions no longer matter if you have Blazing Deserts, so I'm not too worried about it.

But I don't like the cheat options!  Or I want maximum possible compatibility and don't care about losing the changes to those three ambitions!

Good news!  Removing these changes is super easy!  Open the zip file, and drill down in