Superbunny wrote:In Spare The Whip, Spoil The Law, I chose an option (Option 4, I think, whichever one gives you the line "The ruling party is having a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks.") and although it caused my Corruption level to go down drastically (from 4.14 to 2.91) and rose Political Freedoms to good, I was awarded the Summer Residence banner, which apparently requires you to have deep-rooted corruption even though I just lowered it. Am I missing something?
Basically, banners are automatically assigned by the game based on your hidden stats, not your visible stats. Editors don't assign them ourselves. When you answered this option, your hidden stats reached the right threshold in the various stats to unlock that banner.