Money bug or what?

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I was playing a game on the largest universe size and was getting very close to a tech victory -- I managed to settle all my existing conflicts, and turned research investment up to about 60 percent, the other two to 20 percent, and adjusted my spending so that I was making a profit of about 200. I checked the tech screen and it showed I'd have victory in 1 or 2 turns. I pressed the next turn button, and saw my money plummet to around negative 14k. It happened a second time after I got my money back into the black.

I've played a lot of games, but this is the first time I've ever seen such a drastic economic swing short of the recession random event. Has anyone else ever seen this before?

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
You can have high fluctuations in your income when your mini frighters leave a sector with several trade star bases. But this should not be 14K.

There is a bug where CariElf is working on. The calculation of the additional research due to your research abilities is broken.

Sirian found that the economic screen does not calculate it again but uses the research expenses from the last turn or even zero when your loaded a game from a file.

Thus when you have high research abilities and increase your research spending or reload a save game the numbers are messed up completely.

Since the additional research is only partly free, I guess that this could be your problem.

Can you verify this?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm not sure but that does seem to make some sense -- I believe for that game I was playing the technologists plus had maxed technology bonuses. -- Haldur

~SDC~
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Good day Haldur,

Just wanted to let you know that I have had this problem three times in one game so far (game is ongoing). What I have noticed also is that my military and social production goes to zero for one turn when this happens. I believe my total research is affected also but I still get some benefits from somewhere so research isn't zero. I'm currently in the red by a couple hundred and slowly climbing out. ;)
Seems like a bug to me but then again I'm very new to this game so....

Hope it doesn't ruin your game.

Dakeyras
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
This doesn't sound good (:(

I'm pretty sure the income on the domestic screen updates as you shift the sliders between military, social and research (due to different production bonuses).

The only 3 things i could come up with (if it isn't indeed a bug of some kind) are:
1) Loosing a trade partner (due to war, AI major or minor surrendering)
2) If you receive tribute from an AI and that stops (due to the deal ending or the AI surrendering)
3) If i finish a research or manufacturing capital/Galactic center/Omega center on one of my top planets

Hmmm...well it would be nice to hear more about these problems...please do post again
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
If you have the starbase prompts turned off, you may want to turn them on again. It sounds to me like you may be building starbases and having the logistics fee subtracted from your treasury.  I had thought that I put a note in the version history to turn the prompts back on, but apparently not.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I can confirm that that is a very good way to wipe out 30k of a 20k pile of BCs LOL

~SDC~