KNOWN BUG: Load game & AI has lots of Merchants

[Merlact]

Load game & AI has lots of Merchants

I've searched for this problem and not found it so here I go...

I'll be playing a game for a few hours and have monopolies in 2 or 3 CoT with minimal competition thus giving me large sums of cash
However if I save and exit the game and return later, at the next 1st of the month the AI fills up these CoT's with loads of Merchants from lots of countries and my trade income is slashed by about two thirds! It takes ages to get back to the level I was at but if I have to save and exit the game again I know when I come back I'll have to do it all over again

I don't know if the AI is given 6 Merchants at the start of every loaded game or if they learn which CoT's to stay away from because I'm forcing them out only to forget this information after a save/load?
If it isn't a bug as such it does continue to spoil my games!

 

[labalag]

Well reloading a game resets the AI priorities. If the AI was saving money before the reload for something else (building troops, investing in tech, building manu's) and saving up their merchants, then after the reload the money will be used for sending merchants.

 

[AndrewT]

This is another aspect of the well-known AI sleep issue, eg:

287 : Type: Game Logic | Status: CONFIRMED | Severity: MAJOR
The explorers cruises along discovering, but the conquistadors just sits quietly doing nothing. Then if I reload the game, they wake up and discover one province, and then goes back to sleep... And if I reload again... Well then they discover a province again before going back to sleep...
Reported In: 1.04 | Correction planned In :- | Corrected In :-

The workaround is to save your game about every 5-10 years, exit and reload to wake up the AI again.