Authority Bug?

**Zomby_Woof** · 01-21-2007, 01:17

It's the mid-1400s in my current game as the Spanish and in the hopes of unlocking the Turkish faction, I convinced the Pope to call a crusade to their last province, Trebizond. After my crusading army arrived in the province and killed the faction heir I noticed something wierd about the king:

At first I was astonished that he had near maxed-out authority (I've rarely had a king with more than like 5). When I assualted the settlement I thought I would look at the king's stats to see what made him just such a great king. Rather than having traits that would boost his authority he had quite the opposite. He was loaded with traits with negative authority (i.e. insanity and a handful of others). I went ahead and counted up all the authority points to find that he had -9 in total (including positive points) yet it showed up as +9 in the game.

This seems suspicious at best and while I haven't had any such problem when I'm playing, it still makes me scratch my head when I see it happen to a computer.

**antisocialmunky** · 01-21-2007, 01:28

Looks like some sort of wrap around error...

**Roy1991** · 01-21-2007, 01:42

What does it say when you put the mouse-pointer over his autority? Positive or negative?

**Zomby_Woof** · 01-22-2007, 01:55

It was positive. I wish I had taken the time to take pictures but he had so many traits that I felt it would've taken too long..

**Xiroth** · 01-28-2007, 12:47

Ran into the same bug, although mine is a potentially more irritating circumstance; I actually captured the insane character who is now king when he was just the heir, and let him go because I figured he'd do more damage alive than dead (he had, at the time, one characteristic: 2 or 3 loyalty). So when he became king, I was rather startled at his insane authority score.

I'll post the screenshots in the next post, as apparently you're not allowed to post links in your first post.

**Xiroth** · 01-28-2007, 12:55

Here's the screenshots:
Authority description
Insane characteristics one and two
Positive authority characteristics one, two and three (meaning he should have a -2 authority score)

**sapi** · 01-28-2007, 13:13

Very interesting.

It might be a manifestation of the antitrait bug.

**TevashSzat** · 01-28-2007, 15:01

well, it looks like there is another bug to fix

**LordKhaine** · 01-28-2007, 17:34

Here is my own insane faction leader. Same thing. Also noticed an enemy AI faction leader who was also insane (thanks to my assassins), and he was maxed out too.