Crime system behaving weirdly in 10.26?

[imsobadatnicknames]

Has anyone else had this issue sicne switching over to 10.26 where once you get your legal rep lowered in a region it seems to set off an unending spiral of arrests?Like, for example, yesterday I killed someone, and I got caught by the city watch. I got arrested for murder and went to jail, but as soon as I got out the city watch appeared again to arrest me for criminal conspiracy. I went to jail again, ad as soon as I got out they approached me to arrest me for ciminal conspiacy again.
So far this has been a consistent issue for me wenever I get my legal reputation lowered, wether by going to jail or by a quest, and loading the same saves in 10.24 doesn't seem to replicate this behavior.

[Interkarma]

Sounds like you've been banished from the region as your punishment. Showing your face in any city inside the region you're banished from will result in guards arresting you for Criminal Conspiracy. There's no resolution - you're banished.

This behaviour has been in the game for years. There have been no changes to crime & punishment in recent updates.

But if you can attach a save to reproduce, I'd be happy to take a closer look.

[imsobadatnicknames]

Sounds like you've been banished from the region as your punishment. Showing your face in any city inside the region you're banished from will result in guards arresting you for Criminal Conspiracy. There's no resolution - you're banished.

This behaviour has been in the game for years. There have been no changes to crime & punishment in recent updates.

But if you can attach a save to reproduce, I'd be happy to take a closer look.

The first time it happened to me I thought I had been banished, but after giving it more thought it doesn't really make sense. Usually when you get punished with banishment, the court tells you you've been banished, however, this time all they mentioned was jailtime and a fine. Plus I never really had this issue until I switched to 10.26

Here's a save to see if you can replicate it. However, it seems like exiting the game and then reopening it and reloading this save fixed the problem for me (at least for now). Before I closed the game reloading this save resulted in me getting arrested over and over again, but after I closed it and reopened it I just get arrested once and that's it. On the one hand that confirms it´s not banishment, on the other hand it just makes the source of the problem weirder.
I'll post later if I get the same issue again in the future, as sometimes it seems to fix itself temporarily only to reappear later.

[Interkarma]

Ah, interesting. Someone posted about active crime state not clearing correctly only recently, and restarting fixed it.

Thankyou for save. Will dig in when I can.

[imsobadatnicknames]

Ah, interesting. Someone posted about active crime state not clearing correctly only recently, and restarting fixed it.

Thankyou for save. Will dig in when I can.

Ooooh. So it was probably just the game failing to properly clear the crime I was charged with until I restarted? Makes sense, since the sentence was always about the same (20-22 days of jail) so it was probably the fact that the game failed to clear the crime commited and thought I hadn't gone to jail for it yet.

I doubt the save is gonna be much use then, since reloading it now after having restarted the game doesn't reproduce this behavior for me so I doubt it'll reproduce it for you, but I'll be on the lookout in case it happens again. This is the third time it's happened to me so far so I think it'll pop up again in the future, but at least now I know a reliable (albeit temporary) way to fix it