It's broken as well here!
I'm confused why searching "exile", "exiled", "missing" and "pardon" brings no result in this thread, or the thread over at nexusmods. Is this not an issue for anyone else? Once it reaches day 400 lords will start disappearing. They'll receive pardons to return for exile but simply go missing.
I just went to simulate a new game from day 1 all the way to day 400 for a few hours and now at day ~450 there are at least 3 lords missing already. The rate of lords going missing will only increase after day 400 because a lot of them have cycled through most of the lieges already and are on the verge of exile outside Calradia. Which means they'll receive "pardons" and actually go completely missing!
Image 1: Taishi Nagusei's page. Look at the sidebar on the right, notice Taishi Belir and Taishi Chuarka too. Taishi is the basic lord title for the Khergits:
Image 2: Khergit Khanate page. No Taishi Nagusei. No Taishi Belir. No Taishi Chuarka:
They all received pardons and have thereafter gone completely missing. They don't show up on the list when asking another noble the "location of someone".
How is this a non-issue for everyone else? Has no one else reached day 400+? Even if you rushed, typically conquering all of Calradia would take at least 500 days, and this bug will be very glaring and problematic at that point. A non-rushed conquest of Calradia would typically take at least 700 days. And if you took your time meticulously like I do for months, it could probably easily extend into 1000+ days.
This has been an issue since the older Floris way back in 2011/2012. Am I really the one of the few, or the only one who's facing this issue? The game is unplayable past day 500 because the game treats missing lords as "returned" and it messes up the whole number of lords per faction balancing dynamic. The only way for Floris to then be playable is to disable returning from exile so they are truly treated as having left the realm, but that's barely half a solution.