Is this a bug or something else?

[Cenobite30]

Sorry. Not sure if this should be posted in the bug reports section, as I'm not sure if it's a bug.

I downloaded and played the game yesterday. The computer just turned off all by itself. The game was all messed up with a completely grey map on the nation selection screen when I tried loading a save. I had to reinstall the game (well, not the whole game, just the expansion). Before this, when you looked at the little tab for the game on the bottom of the screen (if you use Windows), it had the little HTTT crown. After this, it has the little Pope hat from IN, but the game appears to work fine.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is my game messed up? Should I stop playing right now? Should I officially report this as a bug?

I can't reinstall the full game as my CD is in a different country, but I feel like I should reinstall just to be safe. I'm so helpless. Somebody solve my problems for me. I'm also shy around women.

 

[Darkrenown]

Sounds like your graphics card is overheating to me, but you could ask in tech support to check. Doesn't sound like something the game specifically is doing.

Try drinking heavily before talking to women, it will make you smarter and better looking.

 

[Gyorn]

[Topic]
I'm also shy around women.

Try drinking heavily before talking to women, it will make you smarter and better looking.

Made my Day :rofl:

 

[Cenobite30]

Sounds like your graphics card is overheating to me, but you could ask in tech support to check. Doesn't sound like something the game specifically is doing.

Try drinking heavily before talking to women, it will make you smarter and better looking.

Much obliged. But why talk to women when I could be plotting and scheming to control the throne of Sicily?

Two more things I noticed:
1. Whenever I use the population census decision, the population always drops 10%, despite saying it has a 50/50 chance. What gives?
2. When testing the population thing mentioned above, I quit and reloaded nine times. It seems like the game knew this, as it started making me lose merchants over the course of a few days. All of a sudden, my merchants in Venice were being kicked out.

 

[Darkrenown]

1. Yeah, it's bugged for now.
2. Weird. What it might be is the AI "wakes up" and re-evaluates the world when you load a game, so it might realise then it has merchants to send, when it would normally wait until the end of month or whenever it normlly checks these things.

 

[Cenobite30]

1. Yeah, it's bugged for now.
2. Weird. What it might be is the AI "wakes up" and re-evaluates the world when you load a game, so it might realise then it has merchants to send, when it would normally wait until the end of month or whenever it normlly checks these things.

Since I seem to have your attention, I'll ask one more thing. I accidentally clicked on a national decision I didn't want. I could reload and try again, but it was years back. There is a part of the savefile that looks like what I want to change. Is repealing the law as simple as deleting that one part of the file? Or is it one of those tricky multi-part deals?

 

[Darkrenown]

Well keep a backup, but yeah, it's fairly simple. There's just a bit like:

1472.10.19=
        {
            decision="militia_act"
        }

Sometimes there's a modifier with it too, but that should be it.

 

[Cenobite30]

Thank you for answering all of my questions.

Do you think I should go to law school, the military, or become a cop? I don't know what to do with my life.

 

[Darkrenown]

Although I'd say the military, that's what I'd like to do one day.

 

[Cenobite30]

Although I'd say the military, that's what I'd like to do one day.

Perhaps one day we'll meet on the field of battle. My rifle will be jammed and I'll ask you how to fix it. Probably show me how to fix the bayonet and protect myself from malaria, too. Hopefully we'll be on the same side.

 

[Nehekara]

Thank you for answering all of my questions.

Do you think I should go to law school, the military, or become a cop? I don't know what to do with my life.

Go to university and become a scientist.

 

[Darkrenown]

Pfft, science! Can your science explain why water falls from the sky?

 

[Cenobite30]

New Question: I'm the leader of a personal union with Sicily. During a war with Genoa, they managed to get Azow over on the Black Sea. Now, whenever I want to use my king to lead my troops, Sicily steals him to stand on guard duty all the way out there, protecting our Black Sea interests (whatever those may be). This wouldn't be much of a problem, except for the fact that I'm currently in a war against Aragon and Portugal (both stronger than me) and my king is an awesome general (3 shock!).

Anticipating this problem (as it has happened before in the middle of an easier war), I waited until the day before my army crossed into enemy territory to take the general away from Sicily and add it to my army, figuring they would be unable to switch the general between armies while the general is in enemy lands. Wrong. It seemed to be working as my army still had my king for about two weeks. Then, without me leaving enemy territory, my king disappears. Where is he? Fucking Azow again.

How can I get these Sicilian jerks to stop stealing my king?

 

[Darkrenown]

You must plot a revolt, overthrow the king and imprision him to protect him from Sicilian kidnappers. While the king is safe you take up the heavy burden of running everything. For the good of the land! Be careful though, you should never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Seriously though, it's a bug. Make a backup, open up your save, search for the name of your king (he'll be in a few places), look for where he is defined as a leader in Sicily's section and delete him from there. Save that and load back up and your king should be safe again. Sadly this happens every time you get a PU.

 

[Cenobite30]

Hmm. I deleted him from one part of their section (right past the list of relationship values with every country), but he still seems to be getting stolen. Is it in more than one location?

 

[Saulot]

Much obliged. But why talk to women when I could be plotting and scheming to control the throne of Sicily?

Excellent point: you'll probably be much more attractive to women and confident when you possess the throne of Sicily.

 

[Grubnessul]

Excellent point: you'll probably be much more attractive to women and confident when you possess the throne of Sicily.

I wrote a letter of application but they said they didn't have any vacancies right now...

 

[Cenobite30]

Since deleting my king from the list of leaders available to Sicily didn't work, I actually loaded up as them and disbanded all of their armies, and continued doing so every time they started building another.

To all of those people considering a personal union: don't. You see a country with disputed succession and you think,"Hey! Free country!" Next thing you know, your all-star king is being sent to guard a border of no consequence to anybody while you're scrambling to send an army to Mantua (who somehow managed to piss off England enough to get excommunicated and who you're defending for whatever reason) to protect her from Austria, Hungary and the Bohemian Holy Roman Emperor, and those Sicilians are doing everything except help (and are probably actively trying to hurt you in secret), sitting on their island, snickering.

Sicily is a big Ponzi scheme. Ponzi is probably a Sicilian name.

 

[Landris]

Sicily steals him

Remember in a PU he's Sicily's king now too, so it's not really stealing!

 

[Cenobite30]

Remember in a PU he's Sicily's king now too, so it's not really stealing!

That sounds like Sicilian double-talk to me!