What can cause a new result for having your spy open the gates?

[King William the Conqueror]

There is the typical way to reset the random chance manipulator by saving and then attempting the task. But this doesn't seem to work for opening city gates with spies. What can I do to get a new (better) result?

[UndrState]

There is the typical way to reset the random chance manipulator by saving and then attempting the task. But this doesn't seem to work for opening city gates with spies. What can I do to get a new (better) result?

I don't think it's actually enough to just save and reload, I think you have to make small changes (move another character like a diplomat) so that the internal number is changed.

[King William the Conqueror]

I don't think it's actually enough to just save and reload, I think you have to make small changes (move another character like a diplomat) so that the internal number is changed.

For most things such as assassinating characters and auto-resolving battles it is, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this. I tried moving some characters a little bit already. Maybe I'll investigate that a bit further.