Prosperity mechanics makes no sense!

I've read the wiki entry on Prosperity and a few posts and I've got a pretty good handle on how the mechanic is supposed to work. It doesn't work that way. How it actually works I have no idea.

I had Veluca go from Poor to Average. Then Nizer came back to my party and crashed the game. ^*(1) I expected that and had a recent save from the same day. The second time after I loaded there was the same prosperity increase. It crashed again a little bit later and tried again but this time no prosperity increase. The third time I sat and let the timer tick and Veluca never got a prosperity bump in 5 days.

I've tried it a dozen times now in various ways. Cleaning out bandits, selling stuff for 0 denars, using the cheat to teleport around and pump in the correct trade goods. I've tried loading different saves. I don't know why I not only cannot reproduce my first couple of runs, I can't even get prosperity to increase when I cheat like mad and give it extra time.

How the hell does this mechanic actually really work? Is it voodoo?

^*(1) Once I've talked to too many people the game crashes. I don't know why or how to fix it, it has simply always done that on 2 different computers.

Submitted February 26, 2017 at 09:28PM by Noneerror http://ift.tt/2lVRd4D