Stuck in "wanted"

[Duke Fleed]

As the title says , its been days at 0 suspicion but the guard wont stop looking for me. i dont know if its because I nuked my suspicion level by turning in prisoners or what but its rather annoying. I dont remember having issues with my previus games but that was before the latest patch

[benji27potf]

When this happens commit a crime and it should reset. For example you can attack the guard but you will have to get the suspicion down after but remember to not nuke it.
If you have an interaction with someone you can threaten them. I am not sure if you can try to sell a stolen item when this happens to a regular merchant but this is the safest alternative in terms of suspicion.

[Romain]

You can also talk to the guards with few stoeln items and pay if you're are rich.

I'm gonna make a report right away before I forget.

[LordTone]

Just did a new game and apparently they are tracking thefts, I was at O and stole an item worth 30 points and the it just ramped all the way up to wanted with tooltip that said it was because of multiple thefts. Had to reload a save before the theft to get the guard off my back since they wanted me to pay for all thefts, not just the latest one.

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Just did the Septelle mission where you can become wanted, but this time instead of simply going from one guard unit to the next we went and captured outlaws in between. Turned them in slowly. Lowered the Suspicion meter gradually to about 15. Then we let that fade by resting.

This time, the behaviour of the Wanted status was predictable. Once it dropped below ?50 or so, we ceased being wanted at all each time we murdered a troop of guards.

I think that this Suspicion metre is bugged in some way. If you overload it fast, the Wanted status bounces back unexpectedly as it goes down. Or it gets stuck, no matter the Suspicion level. So you are always Wanted.
If you turn in too many outlaws fast, it goes below zero and bugs out again.

I think that we can manage it if we keep the Suspicion between say 10-70 or so for now, but Shiro probably needs to look at their formulas and the programming for the Wanted status bugs.

[Duke Fleed]

Yeah it was a bug, as soon as I attacked a caravan and got 50 suspicion the guards lost interest

[Romain]

I'm pretty sure the problem occurs when you reach 0.

My guess :

There's certainly a routine used to decrement (-1) the suspicion meter over time (every X seconds).

In this routine there's a condition tested to know wether or not you are in the flashy red bar and wether or not you are in a wanted state.
If both conditions meet > the message is displayed and the wanted status cancelled.

But if the suspicion meter is equal to 0. There's no need to run this routine, and therefore, nothing in it can happen.