NOT A BUG: papal controller status lost on "re-election"

[lenny]

papal controller status lost on "re-election"

The following happened to me in a recent game:

I was papal controller for some time and didn't care much because my court was large enough and the pope did not have enough prestige to excommunicate any one. Then the pope dies, a new on is elected (with a lot of prestige), the message pops up that I am the new papal controller, but I am not! The nice cross on the character screen disappears and I am no longer able to excommunicate anyone.

I saved the game, and the nice thing is the problem disappears on reload. As papal controller is checked on game start, maybe the problem is that in mid-game the new controller is assigned before the old one is removed. That way, if one is "re-elected" one looses the status on the second pope, gains it again on the third, ...
I thing that happened in my game, but as most popes where useless I didn't pay much attention to it until the one where I realized the problem.

Regards,
lenny

 

[unmerged(2970)]

It happened once for my character to be re-elected as controller when the Pope changes, but I haven't experienced what you described, it might be something else triggered this error.

 

[lenny]

As nobody else seems to have experienced the same problem, I tried to reproduce the problem last night. I loaded a save game close to the pre-described instance and killed several popes, either with the F12 die command or by triggering the "death of old age" event. On all trials I was reassign papal controller without problem, i.e. I could still excommunicate people.

Sorry for reporting without having checked before o !

 

[Grosshaus]

No problem, since all of us bugmods had been too lazy to do anything about this until now

I'll call it a Not a Bug then