No Reward for Mercenary Contract?

[Moos]

I'm playing Zheng Jiang and had a mercendary contract to fight Dong Min. I filled the bar slowly to about half before I took Dong Mins final settlement and destroyed his faction, being rewarded with 56 Fame & Fortune in that fight only to see that the bar was gone afterwards with no reward and no message about it or anything. That can't be the way it's supposed to work, right? If it is, then I will just take up random contracts and then disregard them, because if the only reward is paid at signing the contract and I'm a bandit, they don't really expect me to fullfil the contract for no reward afterwards, right?
Btw: Playing on patch 1.5.2 (started the campaign on 1.5.1 though).

[JuX]

Settlement battles do not count for completing the contract so it gets cancelled if you destroy the faction through conquest.

At one point all i needed to complete the contract was to win a single battle against their standing army.

[Moos]

Hm, his last army was in the settlement and was destroyed when I captured it. How can you not recieve a reward for a mercenary contract when you destroy the faction that you were supposed to fight?

[Fried Noodles]

Originally posted by Moos:

Hm, his last army was in the settlement and was destroyed when I captured it. How can you not recieve a reward for a mercenary contract when you destroy the faction that you were supposed to fight?

Sack and withdraw.

[Moos]

What would be a reward for fulfilling a mercenary contract? So far I only got no reward for fulfilling one and the other 3 or 4 I took up all ended, because the proposing faction made peace with the target faction. Is there a proper reward and reward screen message?

[CA_OtherTom]

It's generally considered that the mercenary contract is paid for up front during the diplomacy negotiations. The timer represents the duration of the contract wherein your employer may send you incentives to keep you loyal.

[Moos]

Originally posted by CA_OtherTom:

It's generally considered that the mercenary contract is paid for up front during the diplomacy negotiations. The timer represents the duration of the contract wherein your employer may send you incentives to keep you loyal.

Ah ok, I did expect some nice reward for destroying the faction targeted by the contract, but guess I was wrong. A little disappointing in my opinion. I would suggest to trigger some kind of reward in case of the target faction being destroyed, especially since I would probably have recieved some reward over the remaining turns if I didn't follow through on completing the contract in the best possible way.

I appreciate your answer, always good to see developers in the forums.

[Moos]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2097273215
"It's generally considered that the mercenary contract is paid for up front during the diplomacy negotiations."
Liu Biao doesn't know...