[1.0.6] Paying for "Guard Training" with zero guards

[Coincident]

I have only 1 tower on my village, and it’s disabled. Yet, on my monthly gold report, I’m apparently paying for “Guard Training” even though I have zero guards (I double-checked on the villager professions window)

I know that moving the tower to another position re-enables the building. The last time I did that was 3 years ago in this settlement. I haven’t moved the tower recently.

The tower has 3 free positions available (“Minutemen” policy), so if enable the building in the future, I get 3 people immediately armed for defense. But I haven’t done that, and it currently has no one occupying it. No idea what is causing this expense.

Save games:

New Arkovia_20251612144236.zip

The save “guard payment bug” is at the moment of this screenshot, might be too late to reproduce.
The save “New Arkovia y7” is a few months before the bug happened (year 8, month 4), so with a bit of 5x speed you might be able to reproduce the bug from here.

[Zantai]

Loading the save with the tower, the upkeep clears out after a month.

[Coincident]

Upkeep is still going for me after 3 months without loading the game. I’ve tried removing all 3 slots, on top of the building disabled. Still paying for it.

Next I will try actually enabling the building and leaving a guard there for a month, and then removing the guard and disabling the tower to see if it works.

Edit: This last thing worked. I’m no longer paying the ghost guard.
I’m not sure how to reproduce the bug. Maybe a combination of moving the tower + enabling/disabling + adding/removing people… maybe while the game is paused?

[TheSmokingHertog]

@Coincident ghost upkeep bugs are hard to find indeed, but its happens rarely.