Controversy won't go down??

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

Alright, so I'm the king of my own faction, I haven't been marshall for almost a week, I noticed my controversy had lowered from 100 to 96. I just resolved a dispute between two of my vassals and I go to see how my controversy is doing.

IT'S 100 AGAIN.

What the actual crap is this? I thought resolving disputes was supposed to LOWER your controversy, not increase it! I'm also not at war with anyone atm and haven't been for what I estimate is 2-3 weeks. There are no huge outbreaks of bandits in my kingdom as I periodically check to see if there are any using CTRL + T and I attack bandits on sight unless they're like 10 or lower.

At this point I'm at the verge of giving up and I might as well ask if anyone knows if I can edit some txt files or something to lower it back to 0 because this makes no sense.

Tl;dr: Controversy doesn't go down despite everything in my faction going smoothly and I'm doing everything the wiki says you're supposed to do to lower controversy.

[psychotron666]

Controversy goes down when you take fiefs and defeat enemy Lord's. Just get a war going, and you can bring it to 0 in like an hour or less.

[lionhart]

Does it matter? I don't think controversy affects much of anything when you are the king. It makes it harder for you to be the marshal but if you are king you don't want to be the marshal anyway; better to appoint one of your vassals to that role.

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

I read that controversy also makes it harder to persuade other nobles to join your faction. Which is another reason why I want it gone because I want more good-natured and upstanding nobles by my side.

[lionhart]

Originally posted by HolyMolyOllyPolly:

I read that controversy also makes it harder to persuade other nobles to join your faction. Which is another reason why I want it gone because I want more good-natured and upstanding nobles by my side.

It is almost impossible to persuade good-natured and upstanding lords to defect. Usually the only way you can get them is to eliminate their factions.

[boiling pie]

Do you have lords without a fief? That could be the cause.

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

As soon as I get a new lord I give him a fief; usually a castle and it's corresponding village.
I currently only have one lord without a fief but I can't find him anywhere and nobody knows where he is when asked.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by HolyMolyOllyPolly:

...Tl;dr: Controversy doesn't go down despite everything in my faction going smoothly and I'm doing everything the wiki says you're supposed to do to lower controversy.

Controversy does go down over time, so there must be something that is continuing to add to your controversy. ie: The game isn't broke, something else is going on. Finding out exactly what keeps adding to your Controversy is difficult to do for us, so you'll have to examine a lot of different things.

http://mountandblade.wikia.com/wiki/Controversy

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

I've been over the Controversy page on the M&B Wiki enough times to know that the listed factors that increase controversy are not what's happening. There are literally no bandits. Not a single party. I'm at peace with all factions though they sometimes -rarely, actually- attack my caravans but as I'm not the Marshall I shouldn't get controversy as a consequence for that.

I don't leave soldiers behind, haven't really had a chance to since my empire is at peace.
Losing vassals. Ehh, kinda? I mean, I frequently get nobles who get indicted for treason run to my capital and as they're all of the cunning/pitiless/sadistic/bad-tempered variety I pass them off to the next faction as I don't want nor need venomous asps like that in my faction (I only accept marshall or better types of lord).

But do I really get controversy for sending those nobles off? I don't really accept them into my faction so they're not legitimate vassals of mine that I'm losing. If that's the case, well then, that's just ridiculous.

Seriously, if anyone knows of a way to edit the game so I can lower the controversy, that'd be a lifesaver. I don't have any problem with "cheating" as long as it's within reason and "fixing" what I feel like are bad design choices on the dev's part.

[psychotron666]

Controversy is negligible. I always convince Lord's to join me and I never pay attention to controversy.

Also it will go down constantly if a Lord is imprisoned. You can also pass off the marshalship to someone else and you shouldn't gain controversy by whatever is causing it. Lord's losing battles, villagers being killed, villages being raided, etc will all increase controversy whole you're a Marshall.

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

Short update, I just downloaded the save editor and spend a good 10-15 minutes rifling through the files and folders of it and could find nothing to alter or edit controversy.

Does anyone know for a fact if it's there and if so could they please point me to it?

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Controversy is negligible. I always convince Lord's to join me and I never pay attention to controversy.

Also it will go down constantly if a Lord is imprisoned. You can also pass off the marshalship to someone else and you shouldn't gain controversy by whatever is causing it. Lord's losing battles, villagers being killed, villages being raided, etc will all increase controversy whole you're a Marshall.

I already wrote that I haven't been the marshall for a good while but still my controversy won't go below 96.

[lionhart]

I doubt you are going to find any useful information on this because most people don't care about controversy and I've never heard anyone even talk about it before, much less try to mod it.