I:R - Mercenaries not being blackflagged when hired on enemy occupied territory

[raycharles5]

Description of problem
Mercenaries not being blackflagged when hired on enemy occupied territory

What platform are you playing on?
Steam

What game version are you running?
1.0.2

Please select any/all DLC you have enabled.
Hellenistic world flavor pack,
Epirus flavor pack

Do you have mods enabled? No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Mercenaries hired on territory owned but occupied by enemy are not exiled but can immediately siege down occupied territory.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
Have an enemy occupy your land which has a mercenary stack, hire the mercenary force, it starts a siege and is not exiled.

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[Maria Theresa]

Pretty sure that's not a bug.

 

[SchwarzKatze]

I failed to see how spawning units that can immediately start a siege in occupied territory is WAD.

 

[Maria Theresa]

Because the rule for mercenaries is that they start black flagged and then have to move to a city you CONTROL to get rid of it. If they are located in the city you control (a.ka have occupied in a war) when you hire them, they immediately un-black flag themselves. Thus it's working as designed.
Whether that is balanced and/or reasonable or not is another question entirely.

 

[SchwarzKatze]

Because the rule for mercenaries is that they start black flagged and then have to move to a city you CONTROL to get rid of it. If they are located in the province you control (a.ka have occupied in a war) when you hire them, they immediately un-black flag themselves. Thus it's working as designed.
Whether that is balanced and/or reasonable or not is another question entirely.

Um, are you reading it wrong? They are un-black flagged in owned but enemy occupied cities, hence the siege.

 

[Maria Theresa]

Um, are you reading it wrong? They are un-black flagged in owned but enemy occupied cities, hence the siege.

I guess i was reading it wrong indeed.

In which case i suppose game wrongly believes that territory occupied by someone is controlled by both of them in terms of mercenary eligibility.
So whoever buys them first gets to un-black flag them immediately and that does sound like a bug.
Or maybe it's still WAD. This is paradox after all, can never be sure of anything.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

Thanks for the report!

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