Weird issue with two electors. I finished the person quest for Krovos then did the quest for Milan (drinking, completed successfully) then it somehow without moving to the next social round or leaving Milan's quest the game decided I would call Krovos to charm him right in front of Milan. Please see the attached picture for how it looked.
This is minor, but when I recruit Yakau, the pop up says that the fleet will now escort the palace, but their actual instructions remain as "Hold position at Heru I". If I spend another action to talk to Yakau and tell him to escort me, then the fleet actually starts following, but either he should do that by default or the popup should just say that Zorana now has the ability to give directions to the fleet (although I'm not sure if there's actually any point to moving the fleet at this stage of the game).
A couple of questions (possible but not certain bugs), having taken a quite different route through the game to usual, on version 0.7.18.1:
Is Dragocen's royal portrait (visible in the Turn 1 starting sequence and one of the Cautious mood activities) intended to have a constellation tattoo? My understanding of the lore is that this is something Myrkkans receive on becoming adults, for religious reasons. If Dragocen is old enough to have had an adolescent daughter at the time the portrait was presumably painted (given it's there at the start of Turn 1), Dragocen would be expected to have undergone the Myrkkan adult initiation rites at some point. (If there's a spoiler about Dragocen's beliefs being different, the imperial portrait artist was trying to make an aesthetic statement or some other in-game reason exists, however non-spoilery, please put that reason in rot13 or something - adding lore would be an equally valid solution for this as changing the image, and potentially simpler at this point).
I'm also not sure if this sequence of checks that appears whether Branekka is asked about the weather at the Heru III reception is intentional, coincidental or a bug. It's the first time I've seen any check of the same area not be presented in ascending or descending order:
For the Dragocen question - that's just the result of the filters that were run over the portraits to make them into vague painted background portraits rather than looking like people on a viewscreen. They almost lost their faces entirely, really - if you look, Milania has no nose and Dragocen's features are barely hinted at. That, plus the angle and the lighting, make it very hard to pinpoint details, so the tattoos he would have simply aren't visible in this display. Naq vg vf xvaq bs vzcbegnag gung jr qba'g frr gurz gbb pyrneyl.
For Branekka - that looks like you may have been using Skip to progress rapidly through the text and therefore you're seeing the checks from many different dialog lines all at the same time. There are multiple Empathy checks throughout her conversation and that's what you'd get if you were zooming through and only stopped at the 'can't tell how she feels about you' line.
The Dragocen explanation makes a lot of sense. Vs n (erny-yvsr) zhfrhz unq cnvagvatf qvqa'g ybbx yvxr cnvagvatf jura gurl jrer fhccbfrq gb qb fb, V'q or qvfnccbvagrq. Vg fgnaqf gb ernfba gung gur Urnirayl Cnynpr'f ehyref jbhyq rkcrpg gurve cnvagvatf gb or cnvagreyl gbb. :)
I wasn't trying to skip the Branekka dialogue, so I will try and test that more carefully next run in case I clipped the scroll wheel or something (since the scroll wheel is set to rollback/roll-forward on my computer, thus having the same optical effect as a temporary Skip function).
One minor visual bug for Ginnungagap the ebon blot. Unlike every other possible name for the ebon blot, Ginnungagap overshoots the name box in the Social screen. I believe the solution is to do whatever was done for the default falcon Princess Caramel Macchiato, or the viper custom name (yes, the font shrinks in both of those cases, but the text does fit the box for Princess Caramel Macchiato and the custom viper name).
I just ran into an issue with Zolot. I did his personal quest early to secure his vote, he withdrew his vote from me to pledge it to onol Gfvexbal, and after I let Rfznenev trg nffnffvangrq ng gur bcren, I went back to see if I could reclaim it. If I try to negotiate, I get the message that he's not taking my calls until I've finished his personal quest:
However, there's no option for the personal quest since I've already completed it and turned it in. He did accept a flattery call and a call with an offer of a cabinet position.
Some Electors have a lot of enemies. If you happened to do those ones near the beginning of the run, then denounced a bunch of their enemies, that could have raised their opinion enough to change their mind and go positive again. If you've made other decisions they like as well, that would increase their opinion too (there are a lot of plot decisions that inevitably will affect what the Empire thinks of you).
I suspect that a denouncement which has special attention in the plot may be a true baked-in "will never vote for you" (for example, kicking someone out of a reception in front of everyone after receiving specific incriminating information). However, I'm not sure whether a standard denouncement completely locks out the . I think the most effective way tr troubleshoot this might be to pick up a high-Media person - and then have fun denouncing everyone else, getting Empathy built up as high as possible. It would be an enjoyable run regardless of the result!
A different run indicates that some Electors can change their votes back to you if doing certain options that are still available and if their opinion of you is high enough. However, they are the sort of things that would make sense to enable a vote change even in the context of a denouncement essentially meaning the Elector won't vote for you. My specific example was Vkvy jnf qrabhaprq ohg gura jnf jvyyvat gb ibgr sbe zr svsgrra gheaf yngre jura V nterrq gb trg ratntrq gb Ynhsva. That certainly isn't something that would sneak up on a player and surprise them at the vote.
Please could you tell me how I get the history across to you, so you can see exactly what path I took to get to that state? I've tried saving the log but it doesn't appear to include the history, only the loading details.
I'm willing to send the save file itself, but am aware that copying saves between different people's installations is deprecated in current versions of Ren'Py for security reasons. I'm also willing to compose and send a document that documents what happened on a step-by-step basis (primarily that would be useful if you wanted to see the changes in popularity rating from the Imperial+ surveys I kept doing during the run, since neither the history nor the save file necessarily saves that in a convenient format for bug testing).
While I haven't seen much in the way of bugs during my playthroughs so far, I did get this visual bug in space navigation. I was on Heru III, and the white dotted lines connecting it to other routes were suddenly gone. They reappeared after the next turn, though. This is the only time I've seen this error.
Text wrapping in non-rectangular spaces is a little bit fiddly. I'll take a look at the code there but no guarantee as to when a fix will actually be in.
