Is this a bug or something else?

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[Darkrenown]

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

 

[Darkrenown]

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

 

[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.

 

[Darkrenown]

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.

There's an example of what to remove here, although if that's what you removed and they could still steal your leader then I have no further suggestions

 

[Darkrenown]

I know I said I had no further suggestions, but actually you could probably cheat them in some cash and hire a bunch of leaders for them. Maybe then they'd use those rather than stealing your king.