COT compete bug

[unmerged(572219)]

Hi

I've got a bit of an odd bug, I was wondering if anyone's seen it before.

One of the COTs (one which I've just annexed) is doggedly refusing to let any merchants compete. It has "-1" empty seats according to the ledger, and no-one has a monopoly there. My merchants have a 99.00% compete chance, and I've sent a dozen or so of them there, but they never manage to get a seat. Having watched it over a few years, it looks like none of the other nations are moving too- who has how many seats there is completely static.

Any ideas?

(I'm playing Divine Wind 5.1 with MEIOU mod).

 

[przemo_li]

Free traders have -60% of compete chance if CoT is not in cored province.

What may happen here is that once your merchant get in, he is instantaneously kicked out.

 

[unmerged(80402)]

Well, maybe it is some bug, but i don't find any explanation... maybe some screenshots or something?

 

[przemo_li]

Well, maybe it is some bug, but i don't find any explanation... maybe some screenshots or something?

He could get CoT from some higly mercantile countries.

You know free trader that do not have core on CoT, and everybody else is mercantile...

 

[DDRJake]

There is a bug that results in -1 traders in a CoT. Not sure if it was fixed in the 5.2 beta or not.

 

[Y2Jonathan]

Free traders have -60% of compete chance if CoT is not in cored province.

It's -15% compete chance from every non-core center of trade owned, although that only applies to foreign CoTs. This, along with infamy have no affect on your compete chance in CoTs that you own.

As for the OP, this is simply a bug that occurs every once and a while that causes there to be negative 1 open slots in the center. (there are 21 merchants using 20 slots)

You can fix this if you have at least 1 merchant in the CoT by abandoning it which will cause it to fix itself. If you don't have any merchants in it, then I think the only solution is to load up as a country that does have a merchant in the CoT and having them abandon it. (or annexing a country with merchants in the CoT)

 

[unmerged(572219)]

You can fix this if you have at least 1 merchant in the CoT by abandoning it which will cause it to fix itself. If you don't have any merchants in it, then I think the only solution is to load up as a country that does have a merchant in the CoT and having them abandon it. (or annexing a country with merchants in the CoT)

Thanks, this worked- I fixed it by loading as a country which had one merchant and abandoning the CoT.

I'd ask if it's worth raising a proper bug report on it, but it sounds like this is known and waiting for a fix?

 

[jdrou]

Yes it's been reported. I don't think it's been fixed in 5.2 and since I don't think anyone has managed to reproduce it most likely it won't be fixed.