Something is wrong

[hotspur75]

In previous iterations, any time I went to the Shek kingdom there were people to recruit. Since the latest update, when the buildings favored for bars and shops seemed to switch (no new or games since 99 have resulted in the dual snail house bars like previous versions), I cannot find many of the Shek recruits. I've found Ruka once in ten games, and Oron once. Neither Rane nor Kang has shown up. When I do find recruits, it's in the first 24hrs. After that, they start leaving and no one returns. Admag bars are consistently empty. Within 5 days, so are Squin bars. And no one ever seems to show up again.

Additionally, the same has been true since the bar in The Hub stopped populating the snail house and moved to the small house. In 99 I still found Hobbs and generic Inu lady, but since 99.1 I never see them in The Hub.

These are needed early game recruits. The Hub and Squin are basically the safest places to start. If these recruits have all filtered out to the new map zone, that's a problem. They need to be back in the towns they've always been in since I started back at 98.34.

I've started new games and the problem repeats.
I've imported and the problem repeats.
The only mod I play with is Dark UI, but I haven't tried turning it off yet so I guess I will try that.

[hotspur75]

My past three attempts have shown that maybe the Dark UI is doing something to starting position. However, while everyone was in their spot at the start of the Wanderer scenario, within 24hrs they left and were not in any of the Shek Kingdom towns.

[philthymcnasty]

I was about to post this and upload a save.

This has occurred in squit, and adamag. In hub some of the recruits wander around. I was lucky to get hobbs before he wandered off and died. There are complaints on the steam fourms for this.

This affects modded npcs too. the eurosword+ merchant wanders around, and the cyber levithians do not spawn correctly.

The swamp towns do not seem to be affected. i will re investigate the uc towns later. Other modded merchants do not seem affected, their stores move but they still sell the correct items.

[mdsrc13786]

The mods doesn't do anything. The game is bugged, npcs (not all, guards and shopkeepers seems not to dissapear, but sometimes they are duplicated) dissapear; they weren't killed, just dissapear. I post it in other reports. But trust me the mods don't do that.

[philthymcnasty]

I am fucking sick of these forums and the file size limits.

I am a lazy person, i don't like jumping through weird steps to upload my saves.

anyway, here are two saves with this bug: one from 99.1 and another from an older version from august. Bug has been around for a while.

Both are heavily modded, but i do not think the mods are the cause. the more recent one is in sho battai and the town has no recruits, squin is also devoid of recruits.

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99.1
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[swillo]

Was just in Admag and found 6 shek to hire. They were in both the small and large inns. Kang was there as well.
I was in Squin earlier and picked up 3 of the 6 there. So they are around, not sure where they are going in your game.

[mdsrc13786]

There's a lot of bug reports like this one. Something is happening with the game. You are very lucky if you don't experiment the bug. They don't go, they dissapear. But if you want to help, please go far away from the place where the recruitables are and then return and send us your save files. I think i identify the problem. If your recruitables/slaves don't dissapear. Thanks.

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[philthymcnasty]

Was just in Admag and found 6 shek to hire. They were in both the small and large inns. Kang was there as well.
I was in Squin earlier and picked up 3 of the 6 there. So they are around, not sure where they are going in your game.

This is a weird bug. I am not sure if i am clarifying the symptoms so i will go into detail:

When i enter certain towns, then yes the first time i am there then the recruits are there. when i leave and come back, no recruits, or npcs in the bar. The bartenders and the shop keepers are there, but the bar patrons and recruits are not.

Now this symptom affects mods as well. I have this mod installed:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1466346198

This adds npc cyborg levithians, three in total, to the deadlands. I see them once, leave the dead lands, and they are gone forever. they have not wandered off, they have despawened. I am 80% certain that this also happens when i log out of the game. I do not believe that this is caused by mods, i do believe that this is a more recent symptom. It has been reported before. It appears to happen in certain towns, like squin, adamag, sho battai, stoat, and last stand. I have not seen it replicate in any other towns then this, and i explored, a lot.

It happened right after that weird bug that made all the towns empty. I suspect it started in .94 or later on. at least back in june.

I hope this information and saves help. God speed devs, God speed.