tommyboyx595 Thank you for the kind words, although I consider myself to be undeserving of them in this particular case: if I run CR on a new game - it resolves just fine (which was expected, to be honest - I would never believe noone ran that assignment before me), which means something else led to the issue, and that puts my low-effort "testing" back to square one. And I lack the knowledge to even attempt to backtrack to where the mess started.
Something (probably unrelated, but who knows) that I wonder about from time to time: the game has the option to continue after you hit the required amount of gold, but how much can it handle past that? It seems to keep track of a bunch of stats, and whilst obviously not ALL of them, some do stay around for the whole duration of the playthrough. The most basic example being the Stats option in-game: click your avatar -> Stats -> General Stats - and you are greeted with records for every slaver and/or slave you ever had: stats (the ones you can directly view via Examine) for the current ones, records of how you lost the ones no longer with you, which is ALOT for my 35-month playthrough - I had Price Of Freedom, a two-day assignment, running over and over for almost a month due to the influx of random slaves. Imagine running that with a full encampment (20 slavers, 20 slaves). Yikes.
Back to gameplay itself, though: what does "an additional Success on X" or the like mean, exactly? For example, the Kitsune racial power: "gain an extra Fail in the City of Aversol and Dreadsea Coast." - is that simply "increased chance of rolling Fail"? How can something like that be counted, like "an extra Fail" or "two additional Disasters"? Is it as simple as a linguistic mistake, or is there some mechanic beyond the percentages?
Yay for edits: do I understand encampment follower role upgrades correctly? That NOT having a slaver/slave fill, say, a Cook role means there is some random no-name working there (with the first upgrade) and further upgrades improve their performance. And in general, the idea is to have either a slaver/slave work there, or have the upgrades. In other words, the idea is to spend the gold so you can free up your people for training/assignments. Or am I misunderstanding something about the "Purchased follower roles will be inactive while you have a slaver or slave filling that same role." part from in-game? Are there any long-term benefits of one over the other?