Possible bug in 1.5.1 related to HRE electors

[delpiero1234]

I might have encountered a new bug in 1.5.1. If it's not a bug then I'd appreciate someone explaining me the following:

Why is the elector Saxe-Lauenburg not supporting any nation for the Imperial Throne? I didn't know this was possible.

 

[Panzerschiffe]

Maybe events caused their vote to be invalid. A nation they favoured was annexed for example. If you let the game reach 1 November, do they still not vote?

 

[delpiero1234]

Maybe events caused their vote to be invalid. A nation they favoured was annexed for example. If you let the game reach 1 November, do they still not vote?

It took Saxe Lauenburg until Janaury 1st 1652 to select a new country to support.

Imagine the emperor dieing in those months - that would have been really dumb because that vote would have been decisive.

Should this be reported as a bug?

 

[TheBloke]

WAD.

common/defines.lua:
EMPEROR_VOTE_DAYS = 60, -- _DDEF_EMPEROR_VOTE_DAYS_; "Cooldown" until Electors can change their vote again.



Elector votes update once per 60 days, so as to avoid flip-flopping if relations are bouncing around.

Then it seems that the calculation is a month-end one. So votes can change when an end of month is reached which is more than 60 days since the vote last changed. Normally that would mean it changes after 60 days, because the last vote also changed at end of month. But this is a special case given that they're voting for REB; as Panzer said, the vote became invalid because a nation got annexed or became a republic or whatever. That didn't happen on a month boundary, so in this case it was ~ 80 days.

WAD.