Why oh why?

[WhiskeyGhost]

I've had the same problem with a papal election recently. I outvoted evryone else on my own (by a good couple of votes) and somehow lost the election... the same screen showed that my cardinal had more votes and another cardinal had won the election.
If that isn't a bug you can bang me sideways and call me Sally. I had that election perfectly rigged too. Still...not a game breaker of a bug, but a little annoying nonetheless.

Now that i think about it, the only times i encountered this was when an excommed faction (previously) or a dead cardinal (died on same turn as vote) happened. I think i had like 8 more votes on my side from my ally, but he managed to get excommed (and why i killed th previous pope, so he didn't hound me to break my alliance)

[imnothere]

i had some problem previously before with pope. but i restart a new game. now allied to pope, paying (pittance) tributes of 100 florins for 100 turns and obeying most commands and never initiate war.

previously i had bad reputation. and now? i have more allies (far away) off, Portugese and French attacked me then suing for peace. and in the process, I even gain a useful trait (wife-is-wise) for getting my heir to marry the Portugese princess. I've also taken Lisbon off Portugese despite the cancelled-crusade (Mr. Gregory died....grrrhh!) just prior to me hooking on the wise-princess.

as suspect, yes, do keep your relationship higher than the Danes. but the problem for me is that French is now allied to Pope so they have same relationship with pope as me (WTH, i knew i should have assassinate those diplomats when i could). I do believe that prior to taking the Lisbon and marrying the princess, Portugese keep attacking me and got excommunicated by the pope.

[Primative1]

I just went back to a previous save & it, pope fixes election that is, happened again. Xdeathfire - Where is a screenshot saved to and how do I upload it to this site?

The pope hates my guts, my rep is in the toilet and everyone I have a border with is at war with me. I may start my campaign again keeping everyones advice in mind. Thanks for all the advice from everyone - I think dread leaders, city sackings & lots of assassin use early on have been responsible for my current predicament. I havn't attacked another faction first at any point or broken any treaties. There does seem to be a constant erosion of relations with the other factions tho, I assume this is just part of the game.

I'd like to finish at least one vanilla campaign but can anyone recommend a decent mod in the EB mode just in case I get pee'd off with it.

Caledonian - I agree that the Total War series is unrivalled, but playing a few of the Rome mods has opened my eyes to the untapped potential the series has. RTR & EB are far superior to vanilla imho.

Sally, errr sorry, Slug - it's not a game breaker but it is one of a number of niggles that build up to major frustration

[Ramses II CP]

That's strange, I've had the bugged Papal elections three times and reloading from the previous turn worked. You didn't just load the autosave, right? It does an autosave in the same turn right before you vote, and that will give you the same result.

Otherwise, you got me. Time to assassinate the Pope and vote again I guess.

[Primative1]

That's strange, I've had the bugged Papal elections three times and reloading from the previous turn worked. You didn't just load the autosave, right? It does an autosave in the same turn right before you vote, and that will give you the same result.

Otherwise, you got me. Time to assassinate the Pope and vote again I guess.

I did load the autosave. I've started a new campaign now but thanks for the tip.

[TevashSzat]

I just went back to a previous save & it, pope fixes election that is, happened again. Xdeathfire - Where is a screenshot saved to and how do I upload it to this site?

The pope hates my guts, my rep is in the toilet and everyone I have a border with is at war with me. I may start my campaign again keeping everyones advice in mind. Thanks for all the advice from everyone - I think dread leaders, city sackings & lots of assassin use early on have been responsible for my current predicament. I havn't attacked another faction first at any point or broken any treaties. There does seem to be a constant erosion of relations with the other factions tho, I assume this is just part of the game.

I'd like to finish at least one vanilla campaign but can anyone recommend a decent mod in the EB mode just in case I get pee'd off with it.

Caledonian - I agree that the Total War series is unrivalled, but playing a few of the Rome mods has opened my eyes to the untapped potential the series has. RTR & EB are far superior to vanilla imho.

Sally, errr sorry, Slug - it's not a game breaker but it is one of a number of niggles that build up to major frustration

I think they got to the heart of the problem, excommed factions, but for future reference, you upload the file onto something like photobucket and then link it to the org usually under a spoiler by copying the code found in photobucket

[Primative1]

Just noticed that EB 1.0 has been released. Medieval2 cant compete with that & is toast. ((uninstalls))

[Rhedd]

Just noticed that EB 1.0 has been released. Medieval2 cant compete with that & is toast. ((uninstalls))

What in the blue blazes is "EB 1.0", then?

[Ramses II CP]

The mod for Rome:TW. It's, umm, advertised on the Org's front page.

[Slug For A Butt]

Sally, errr sorry, Slug - it's not a game breaker but it is one of a number of niggles that build up to major frustration

Agreed, it is frustrating.

Sally.