Magical Appearing Bounty

[BiskmatarCatalyst]

I've done a little research on this, because it's starting to become a pain at this point.

I will be walking along in the wilderness, minding my own business, with 0 bounty. Suddenly, the next time I'm near any guards, they run over to arrest me, and it turns out that I have a mysterious 1885 septim bounty. It happens at random, because there's other times I've been around guards with no incidents. In short, I seem to be getting random bounties for no reason.

 

I installed the Misc Tracker mod so that I could tell when it was added, and to look for a common pattern that causes it, and have found none. The bounty appears at random times, during any sort of activities, at any time of day, etc etc. It's also always 1885 septims.

 

First off, BOSS-ed list, with a Bashed Patch at the end.

 

 

Oblivion.esm

Armamentarium.esm

Kvatch Rebuilt.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp

Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

Realistic Water.esp

WindowLightingSystem.esp

Book Jackets Oblivion.esp

FGPorter_nofollow.esp

Reznod_Mannequin.esp

MiscTracker.esp

Quest Log Manager.esp

Spell Delete And Item Remove.esp

Map Marker Overhaul.esp

Map Marker Overhaul - SI additions.esp

DLCHorseArmor.esp

DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp

ArmamentariumLL.esp

ArmamentariumLLMagic.esp

ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - All the Districts - Merged.esp

ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles - All The Castles - Merged.esp

Kvatch Rebuilt.esp

za_bankmod.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle.esp

DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp

Knights.esp

Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp

ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Forts.esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

100% Harvest Chance.esp

100% Harvest Chance Shivering Isles.esp

Better Post Faction Rewards.esp

2nd to 1st person.esp

Get_Your_Arrows_Back-9403.esp

Leviathan Soulgems.esp

Andrews_No_Quest_Items-6729.esp

P1DkeyChain.esp

Borderless_Cyrodiil-3578.esp

Quest Award Leveller.esp

Alternative Start by Robert Evrae.esp

RealisticForceMedium.esp

Level Based Summon Cap.esp

NollesMadnessPortalT2.esp

SupremeMagicka.esp

SM_ShiveringIsles.esp

SM_DLCSpellTome.esp

SM_Scrolls.esp

Diverse Effect Icons for SM.esp

FasterArrows250.esp

SSEE.esp

SigilStoneSelector-SSEE.esp

Diverse Effect Icons.esp

Lightweight Potions.esp

SM Combat Hide.esp

Deadlier Sneaking 1.1.esp

RenGuardOverhaul.esp

Denock Arrows.esp

Oblivion XP.esp

All Spells Avalible for Enchanting and Spell Making.esp

[GFX]_Initial_Glow-all.esp

Chameleon-NoRefraction-2411.esp

X-Ray Detect.esp

LightSpellWhite.esp

Faction Rank Fix.esp

db_sanctuary_one-room.esp

NoQuestItemsSI_1b.esp

RyanNewChorrolHouse.esp

Script Effect Icon Changer OBSE.esp

Summon Oblivion Gate v08d.esp

ImpeREAL Empire Unique Cities - Sutch.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

 

 

Does anyone know if any of these mods are known to create mysterious bounties? It's a hell of a question, but I can't figure it out. I've done my own research, and haven't found anything. For reference, I've been wearing the Raiment of the Crimson Scar from the Vile Lair DLC.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Hickory]

You mention the Vile Lair. Do you send out your minion to do dirty work? You will get automatic infamy from that, and mayby that's linked to the bounty.

[BiskmatarCatalyst]

You mention the Vile Lair. Do you send out your minion to do dirty work? You will get automatic infamy from that, and mayby that's linked to the bounty.

 

I'm aware of the infamy addition, and I can see a bounty happening if the minion gets "noticed" by the game as committing a crime, but I've run tests where the minion is sitting at home and hasn't done anything for a month or so, and I still get regular bounties. I've actually disabled that particular DLC and still have the same problem.

[Hickory]

Disabling the DLC will not cure your problem, as it's in the saved game.

[BiskmatarCatalyst]

Disabling the DLC will not cure your problem, as it's in the saved game.

 

I'm aware of that. It was just to eliminate the Dark Minion as a potential source of the bounties.

[Hickory]

The only safe cure for bounties, that I know of, it to actually go up to a guard and punch him/her, then go to jail. Do your time and save. If you continue to gain bounties after that, then I don't know.

[Telyn]

This same problem happened to me once on one character but not others, and I believe it can happen during a crash. In my case it was not only adding a bounty at random times, but it also added infamy every time I logged in to the game during troubleshooting. Going to jail and saving did not stop it. It got worse instead, and she would walk out of jail and be arrested again soon after for crimes the character had not committed. I avoid using the console. but removing the bounty and infamy, saving, and then making a new clean save fixed it. She has been alright since, but I think I may have been lucky.

 

I did a lot of troubleshooting trying to pin down a mod associated with this and never could. My bounty amount was the same number. I think it's a glitch that can happen with the GOTY edition during crashes, rarely, It may be related to Vile Lair, actually. I never do anything with minions and don't use the Vile Lair but it was enabled (and my game is fully patched). I can't remember now, but I think Vile Lair might have been one of the dirtier DLCs. I have the Steam edition, but that probably isn't related.