"Spice Trade" event bugged.

[Roberto the boy]

I have no mods, and only some basics DLC's, the game was working perfectly until around a week or so ago. The event "Spice Trade" was triggering as normal and allowed me to use spice islands as a strategy to play my EU4 saves. However now two saves in a row; one European and one as Morocco, the event for "Spice Trade" has not triggered. Leaving the prices for spice in the game to sink to 1.8 and stay there as the "decline of the Spice Trade" still kicks in.

As this event happened on all of my previous saves up until now i was wondering if this is due to a bug in one of the recent patches.

I hope you are able to read this, many thanks!

 

[AndrewT]

Not a tech support issue so moved to main forum. If the community agrees it's likely to be a bug, post in Bug Reports please.

 

[Republic of Mercury]

To check, is there at least one nation that meets the following criteria:

    trigger = {
        has_idea = quest_for_the_new_world
        num_of_ports = 4
        NOT = {
            capital_scope = {
                continent = asia
            }
        }
        NOT = {
            capital_scope = {
                continent = oceania
            }
        }
        has_discovered = 1460 # Cape of Good Hope
        technology_group = western
        any_active_trade_node = {
            has_merchant = PREV
            OR = {
                province_id = 1361 # Straits of Johor
                province_id = 1343 # Ganges Delta
                province_id = 504 # Thatta
                province_id = 1340 # Comorin Cape
                province_id = 2030 # Goa
            }

Because the event should happen nearly instantly when the conditions are met.

 

[Jordedude1234]

What European nation are you talking about in particular?

 

[Tom D.]

It can also happen that the Decline of the Spice Trade event fires before the Spice Trade event itself. I had that during my Flanders to Netherlands campaign, and the Spice Trade event only fired around 1760-80, so it wasn't worth it anymore. There should be a requirement in that event that Decline of ... can only happen if the Spice Trade event has already happened.

 

[Roberto the boy]

I was playing as Netherlands ( formed form Holland)

 

[Dongerino]

It did happen to me in my England game yesterday in around 1630

 

[RegulusPratus]

Happened in my Great Horde run. I expanded into India as a technically-European nation and triggered the "Decline of the Spice Trade" event. The "Spice Trade" event didn't fire until I took Exploration ideas much later in the game and triggered it personally.

In my current run as Malaya, same issue. Spain is active across the Indian Ocean, and controls most of Cape, but until they get around to placing a merchant in India proper, my spices are next to worthless. At this rate, I'm going to have to move my capital to Zanzibar and trigger this myself.