Bug - Trade income not showing up

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Hello,

While playing last night I had many messages show up that stated that "A freighter from race X has arrived this should generate N in trade".

About half the time the trade income would not show up on the economic status screen. The diplomacy screen showed a trade route with the race in question but this is meaningless as according to the status messages I had multiple trade routes with race X.

Additionally...do trade routes expire or vanish for any reason short of being put in abeyance due to war? Later in this same game I had all trade income vanish even though I was at war with no one and had done nothing to remove the trade routes.
Cheers
Magus
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Magus,

I too am seeing cases where trade income fails to show up on the economics screen. In some respects mine looks a bit different than yours, but if you could try something quick we may be able to tell whether they are the same or not.

1). Start a saved game in which you have extablished your own trade routes. Respond to the research window as needed (or just get it out of the way).
2). Look at the economics screen and check the value for income from trade (mine shows $0 bc).
3). Switch to the diplomacy screen. Is there a race selected? (None were selected in mine, which is ok with me.) If not, select one (any one will do).
4). Switch back to the economics screen. Has the income from trade changed? (Mine did.)

If what you find matches mine it only means that you are experiencing at least the same problem. You may also be seeing another one and I will also be watching for more errors.

From the above I would conclude that the calculation for income from trade is dependent on a race being selected in the diplomacy screen. This sounds like a bug to me.

Cari,
How complete is the trade code? Should we be concerned about errors in them just yet? Other comments?

Cheers,
Jack