Can't 'evoke sympathy'

[Sgt. Alex]

So my character, being a secret Orthodox, joined the Old Christians society and keeps getting the 'Evoke Sympathy in X character'. The problem lays in the fact that when I click the character's portrait and the actions menu opens up the evoke sympathy simply doesn't show up. What can be done then except cancelling the mission?

[Sgt. Alex]

Here's a screenshot showing my problem: http://i.imgur.com/8J5OGHf.jpg

[Del_Grant]

I think the problem is that your mission is to evoke sympathy for CHRISTIANS, if your target is already christian (catholic, miaphysite, etc) then you don't get the option. Joined same society and having the same problem, my targets are all catholics, so I don;t get the option. I did manage to use it on my jewish spymaster for a huge opinion boost, so not a total loss.

Haven't seen it listed as a bug anywhere, but it seems like one to me.

[Sgt. Alex]

What's the pointy of having the option if we can't use it on 80% of the characters in the world?

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Sgt. Alex:

What's the pointy of having the option if we can't use it on 80% of the characters in the world?

Because it's useful for the rest? Which is far more than 20%, by the way. It's great for all of the Zoroastrians in Persia, for the East Africans and the Armenians under Muslims, for any Shia Muslims under a Sunni ruler (useful to go "legit" once the Shia Uprising event fires). It helps for the western Indians dealing with Muslim invaders and any pagans under Christians in North/Eastern Europe. It's a pretty useful society, it's just not as useful for the rare occasions of being a Christian under another Christian is all.

[Sgt. Alex]

Then they at least need to either fix it so it stops giving me missions with other christians as targets or make it so 'evoke sympathy' also works on them.

[Luzilyo]

sorry for necro, i have the same problem and didn't find any solutions anywhere. i get the "evoke sympathy" mission which tells me to right click on a certain person and use the evoke sympathy option. but when i right click on that person, there is only the usual "induct into faith" option and no "evoke sympathy" option anywhere. so those missions have so far all been impossible to complete.

does anyone know a workaround that i can use while waiting for the fix?

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Luzilyo:

sorry for necro, i have the same problem and didn't find any solutions anywhere. i get the "evoke sympathy" mission which tells me to right click on a certain person and use the evoke sympathy option. but when i right click on that person, there is only the usual "induct into faith" option and no "evoke sympathy" option anywhere. so those missions have so far all been impossible to complete.

does anyone know a workaround that i can use while waiting for the fix?

Abandon the mission. That's it.

[Makorufus5000]

Originally posted by Luzilyo:

sorry for necro, i have the same problem and didn't find any solutions anywhere. i get the "evoke sympathy" mission which tells me to right click on a certain person and use the evoke sympathy option. but when i right click on that person, there is only the usual "induct into faith" option and no "evoke sympathy" option anywhere. so those missions have so far all been impossible to complete.

does anyone know a workaround that i can use while waiting for the fix?

Sorry for my necro. To fix this, just change the other persons religion via console command.

religion Unique ID norse_pagan should be the command to do so. Although I wouldn't do this very often to avoid future problems.