Greetings. I have played this game multiple times before with no issue, but only recently picked it back up after several months and multiple patches later. I am currently playing a regular campaign using all DLC up to Old Gods, with the most current patch version of the base game. I started the game from the Old Gods start point and am playing Ostlandet. I have formed Norway, reformed the faith and various other things. So far there have been no game crashes. I am not using any mods.
However, I just noticed a peculiar and possibly game-breaking bug. I am beginning to receive a new courtiers in my court every few days, having the same name, the same portrait, the same stats, and identical traits. They have different coat-of-arms and "dynasty", but are otherwise functionally the exact same. I noticed because the first one to arrive popped a Change Marshall event. At that time, I had 7 identical courtiers, and as I unpaused, I received two more over the next few weeks. I am now at 27 courtiers.
I stopped the game and went back to a previous save. Same thing started to happen when it reached May 893. I went to an even earlier saved game (two years previous), made different decisions to force a RNG change (if possible), and as soon as May 893 rolled up, I began to spawn the same courtier again. Each time, the dynasty name changed, but the first name stayed constant: Ulfr
Any ideas on what could be the cause of the problem and how to fix it? Normally, I would not be upset because the courtier has a martial skill of 26, but it appears that the courtier spawn trigger is stuck in a loop in the database, so it will eventually spawn too many characters and crash the game.
However, I just noticed a peculiar and possibly game-breaking bug. I am beginning to receive a new courtiers in my court every few days, having the same name, the same portrait, the same stats, and identical traits. They have different coat-of-arms and "dynasty", but are otherwise functionally the exact same. I noticed because the first one to arrive popped a Change Marshall event. At that time, I had 7 identical courtiers, and as I unpaused, I received two more over the next few weeks. I am now at 27 courtiers.
I stopped the game and went back to a previous save. Same thing started to happen when it reached May 893. I went to an even earlier saved game (two years previous), made different decisions to force a RNG change (if possible), and as soon as May 893 rolled up, I began to spawn the same courtier again. Each time, the dynasty name changed, but the first name stayed constant: Ulfr
Any ideas on what could be the cause of the problem and how to fix it? Normally, I would not be upset because the courtier has a martial skill of 26, but it appears that the courtier spawn trigger is stuck in a loop in the database, so it will eventually spawn too many characters and crash the game.
