4Z trade & rebellion oddities
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In October 2197 I got the dreaded event that I had a rebellion (playing demonic, of course), and lost a large number of systems to the "Terran Theocracy". It occured to me to check how this affected my trade routes. I had 10 trade routes, all of which were from planets that had rebelled. Despite this, the domestic policy trade display listing the trade routes showed 7 of the 10 as normal, with 3 having values of N/A. Selecting each of the routes in turn showed that all of them had a value of N/A, even though the list only showed 3 with N/A.
Unfortunately, I had not checked the trade window for several turns prior to the rebellion, so I can't say for sure that the 3 routes saying N/A had that happen on the rebellion turn and not before.
Several turns later, after retaking the rebel worlds, I checked the trade window again. The seven routes that had not said N/A before now appeared normal. The 3 routes that said N/A in the list still said N/A when I selected them. I can find the mini-freighters for those routes, however, and they say things like "en route from x to y, this freighter will return 7 bc this turn".
So are you supposed to lose trade routes when system rebel but you retake them? If not, shouldn't I have gotten all 10 of my routes back, instead of just 7 of them? I hadn't noted the total bcs I was getting from trade, so I can't tell whether this is really affecting my income or whether the trade window is just wrong.
Unfortunately, I had not checked the trade window for several turns prior to the rebellion, so I can't say for sure that the 3 routes saying N/A had that happen on the rebellion turn and not before.
Several turns later, after retaking the rebel worlds, I checked the trade window again. The seven routes that had not said N/A before now appeared normal. The 3 routes that said N/A in the list still said N/A when I selected them. I can find the mini-freighters for those routes, however, and they say things like "en route from x to y, this freighter will return 7 bc this turn".
So are you supposed to lose trade routes when system rebel but you retake them? If not, shouldn't I have gotten all 10 of my routes back, instead of just 7 of them? I hadn't noted the total bcs I was getting from trade, so I can't tell whether this is really affecting my income or whether the trade window is just wrong.
