[1.092] CTD on murder of final patrician

[PAnZuRiEL]

I'm playing as an English Merchant Republic, and decided to eliminate one of my competitors, a fellow patrician family in the same republic. They had a large family, and it took a long time and much toil to do away with them all by plots or outright assassinations -- but when I try to assassinate the final heir of the dynasty, the game crashes immediately. This is odd, because at least two other families have died out inside the republic and vanished by less violent means.

The first time a family died out, all of their trading posts disappeared instead of carrying over to their successor family. I was not under the impression that that was supposed to happen. The second time a family died out it was the successor to the previous one, and their trading posts did not disappear, at least as far as I noticed. I exterminated this third family (or attempted to, rather) with the faint hope that their trading posts might disappear also, because they have quite a lot of them. I suppose I'll report whether it works or not, if I can find a way to finish them off.

EDIT: Murder by plot also caused a CTD.

 

[ahuitzotl]

I have this same problem in 1.092, noticed it yesterday when I was trying to kill a rival patrician whose election campaign was bankrupting me. I found that if the bugged patrician dies any way, it causes a CTD. I tried assassinations, plots, imprisonment and execution, letting him die of old age, and typing "Kill (char number)" in the console - all methods caused a CTD.

Also tried loading earlier saves to kill the same patrician character when he was younger, and there was no CTD, so maybe his stats became bugged at some point in his life. I even reloaded from before he was born but the same problem arose with a different patrician character.

Attached is a RAR containing 2 save games in which the CTD can be reproduced. Try to kill the rival patrician with the highest respect in the upcoming election. (Vukoman of Srbija in "save1," Konstantin of Sokolovic in "save2").

 

[PAnZuRiEL]

Leaving them to die of natural causes hasn't given me any problems. Also I can now say for sure that the trading posts do not disappear when the family is wiped out and do carry over to the next one, although the Doge inherits all their land holdings.

 

[lordvagrant]

Same here: After having several of my key trade posts stolen by the Grand Mayor, I set off on a plotting spree to hopefully get back my posts (the scumbag was at his post limit when he stole mine, and I can't even go to war to get them back!). Several plots later (he had a small family), I kill the last of the hellspawn and CTD.

 

[LarryLeica]

The Patrician death bug is part of the wider 'random' crashes many people seem to be suffering. Hopefully we won't have to wait 2 months and the next expansion to get it fixed!