Economic screen went haywire

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I was happily playing away when I realised I was in the red. No money, yet the government economic screen showed turn after turn that I was making 400-1100 profit each time. Now that isn't right.

I finally figured out that the economic panel had removed all expenditure for Social and research. The interesting thing was moving the tax rate or the government expenditure slider didn't do anything but increase my revenue.

The only thing I tried which was probably bad, before this went haywire, was destabilizing another player.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmm....and your percent spending for Social and Research weren't zero?

Was it a saved game that you loaded?

What about your trade income? Did one of your trading partners get killed off?

We'll have to investigate the economy code...it does sound like something is amiss...
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari,

Don't forget that the destabalisation and espionage expenditures are not accounted for in the economy screen (the thread reporting this has rolled off the forum). This can lead someone into the red unawares.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeppers. It would definitely be nice if that information was part of the display on the economy screen.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
the destabalized partner was killed off. I killed them off after just setting the destabilize one year only. too expensive.

Spending was pretty much evenly divided between the three Military/Social/Research yet nothing appeared on the economics screen.

I also had killed a number of trade routes to make room for more profitable routes. While I didn't have routes at the time the partner died with them its more than likely they had routes with me.

We were also running the maximum of 10 trade routes each. The UP voted each time on raising the limit by 2.

Its also possible I was playing a saved game. Forget sorry!

I was still receiving trade income and taxes. fixed military expenditure presumably for ships built was still listed I think and maybe research costs but nothing else if memory serves.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I have seen a similar situation a couple of times. It usually is just a glitch for a couple turns. The spending slider makes no difference and I have always been in the black in total cash and spending but suddenly a large amount disappears from the total cash and I am in the red. I can usually get back into the black after a few turns.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
For me it just went on and on. the cash would drop to -800 or so and then climb back to -120 or -332 and drop again. It just went on and on. I finally ended the game with an alliance win.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I'll check to make sure that it stops spending destabilization when the AI dies...