Betrayal Board Permanently BRICKED -- Unable to interact with Betrayal mechanics whatsoever

I've seen several people post about this League-Breaking bug that causes Betrayal encounters to completely stop showing up. This is a permanent situation if you play your cards wrong, it would seem. It cannot be undone.

This is one popular thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/a4fiff/fyi_stacking_up_4_safehouses_turns_your_game_into/

This is a response detailing the league-breaking bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/a4fiff/fyi_stacking_up_4_safehouses_turns_your_game_into/ebe51kl

My board almost bricked itself. I had 3 safehouses at 100%, and the fourth at 99%. From that point onwards I didn't find any encounters, ever. No exceptions. Did 6 tiers of maps without finding a single one, so it's not luck (they're also supposed to spawn in every zone).

Luckily after I did two safehouses, did the third, and chose to put the third safehouse's leader in jail, encounters started spawning again, as the other leaders who were in jail were then pushed out of the jail, and it seems they are responsible for encounters spawning.

I tried at every step between to find encounters in the wild, but they only started showing up immediately after I JAILED (not just beat) the third safehouse leader.
It was extremely lucky that my fourth safehouse was only at 99% and not 100%, otherwise I'm afraid I would've permanently destroyed my Betrayal interactions like the reddit post author above.

TLDR: Manipulating your Betrayal board in a particular way (stacking up multiple safehouses to raid one after the other) can mean that you no longer encounter any Betrayal mechanics in normal zones. This persists even after completing all safehouses, blocking you from ever interacting with Betrayal mechanics again.

This should be a top priority for GGG to fix, because it completely ruins the league for any player who creatively decides to run all four safehouses in a row for whatever reason.

I am experiencing the exact same thing. My current board looks like this:

I am very disappointed there are NO fix for this in the 3.5.0.c patch notes, and the issue isn't even up on the "Known Issues" list.

This is a MAJOR game breaking bug.

If you don't know how to fix this, TELL US, instead of leaving us in the dark!

I am too.


I think in your specific case, you could do all three safehouses and you should get more encounters spawning.. Maybe. Worth a shot anyway since you're not gonna get them without changing anything.
I had a similar scenario to yours and it ended up fixing itself because the fourth safehouse wasn't ready to raid.

I'm having a similar problem, also a bricked board, and 'research' encounters not spawning anymore:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2264975