2.3.2 Chronicle totally broken for ALL Patricians unlanded (just family holding)

[vahadar]

With CK 2.3.2 MMUR and all DLC installed (exept EU4 converter)

Since chronicle have been introduced, it seems no one noticed that it was broken for Patrician players. I hoped for a fix patches after patches but none came :s

The problem occurs when nothing happen during one or many years when you still only own your house barony without any other land (which is the case for all starting patrician families exept doges). So unlike for the chronicle of a landed lord, the chronicle has no random event spawned for that/thoses years (like witch spoted, heavy rains and so on), and thus makes the chronicle buggy because you cant have the "turn page" button generated because the "empty" years are not shown at all.

Only way to make the chronicle work again is to edit the savegame, and add some entry in an empty year.

 

[vahadar]

a quick update with a fix : you can just remove, when editing the savegame, the chronicle entry for a year that is empty and it works again : you can browse the chronicle again.

 

[IlyaZ]

I thought it had to do with me not employing a chronicle writer, but then I tested it right after and still nothing.

Hard to edit saves in ironman though.

 

[Ashagar]

Ah, I started as a patrician and the chronicle is blank so far regardless of what events minor or major that have happened. I had wondered it was simply because I hadn't started as feudal or tribal lord though I would have thought it would have at least had random trade related events or marriages, births and deaths if nothing else.

 

[vahadar]

There is no random event generated until you get a holding (even a city will do, as conquered in a county where you have a trade post).
Only war between patricians, birth of first son, sometime mariage (not all the time) and obviously all other war events recorded where your house leader participate make the chronicle works as long as there is at least one of those event each year until you have your first holding. So it is possible to have a "working" chronicle if you plan things correctly to have events recorded before your first holding (generally 2-5 years).
Once you have a holding (city, county and so on) the random event pop as usual when nothing happen during a year to fill the chronicle. This will do until a patch fix this

Obviously if you get doge you will have random events, but if after your death your heiir has just the family house and no holding, the bug is back.

 

[IlyaZ]

But it must be a very simple thing to fix? Isn't it a matter of formating or similar?

 

[vahadar]

The thing is that the recording of the chronicle is working, it just doesnt show at all (if there is an empty year following the game start year as an unlanded patrician) or partially (if at any point there is an empty year, and you have no holding and are a patrician, after this "empty" year you cant turn chronicle pages anymore). If you browse the save file, chronicle is present with all entries.

Its probably not too hard to fix, like making something that would give random events to patrician houses (since it is technically a barony), which would solve the problem for years without any event in chronicle. Or a test like : if unlanded patrician = no blank chronicle_chapter if no event during a year.

In a save file (not ironman obviously ) it is shown like this :

chronicle_collection=
			{
				chronicle=
				{
                                 chronicle_chapter=
					{
						chronicle_entry=
						{
							text="This is the Chronicle of House Thörgal, in which is contained the record of its yearly fortunes, glories and difficulties."
							portrait_title_tier=1701054730
							picture="GFX_evt_monk"
						}
						year=769
                                        }
                                 }
                         }

Basically each chronicle_chapter is matching a year (with at least 1 chronicle_entry minimum when working normally if no event thanks to random event)
If there is no chronicle entry for a year its bugged, but the chronicle chapter is still present in the save.

Right now only way to fix : delete the empty chronicle_chapter in your save, or add a chronicle_entry in an empty chronicle_chapter and its solved.

 

[IlyaZ]

I checked the changelog, no fix yet?

Edit: Oh forget it, I misread the patch date.