Tech/Building timetables are sometimes wrong?
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Ok, something that has annoyed me for a while now is that:
1) What the planet sidebar panel shows for a social build timetable is not what is shown on the planetary screens. The sidebar might say a factory will be built in 5 days, but on the planet/colony, it might say 4, 6, etc...why is this?
2) When I am researching a tech, and it says 5 weeks...sometimes it takes 6 (no global production % changes either). If this changed due to colony changes...I'd like to see it reflected immediately in the research timetable given...it's almost like it doesn't update itself when I make individual planetary changes like moving hammers around, which I don't always do and it still happens.
3) Also, just let me add an unrelated issue. When I go to the colony ship building section, and I choose a ship, there are two options; 'Done' and 'Go Back to Planet/Colony'. The problem is, when I click 'Done', it takes me back to the map screen, not to the planet I was on. When I click on the 'Go Back' button, it takes me to the colony screen, but the ship is not chosen to be built. What am I missing? I want to select a ship to be built and have it take me back to the colony screen at the same time.
Thanks all.
1) What the planet sidebar panel shows for a social build timetable is not what is shown on the planetary screens. The sidebar might say a factory will be built in 5 days, but on the planet/colony, it might say 4, 6, etc...why is this?
2) When I am researching a tech, and it says 5 weeks...sometimes it takes 6 (no global production % changes either). If this changed due to colony changes...I'd like to see it reflected immediately in the research timetable given...it's almost like it doesn't update itself when I make individual planetary changes like moving hammers around, which I don't always do and it still happens.
3) Also, just let me add an unrelated issue. When I go to the colony ship building section, and I choose a ship, there are two options; 'Done' and 'Go Back to Planet/Colony'. The problem is, when I click 'Done', it takes me back to the map screen, not to the planet I was on. When I click on the 'Go Back' button, it takes me to the colony screen, but the ship is not chosen to be built. What am I missing? I want to select a ship to be built and have it take me back to the colony screen at the same time.
Thanks all.
GalCiv2 Forums
I always adjust my research slider till I get "1 week to complete", and then I add 10% just to adjust to this stupid bug. And even then, sometimes next turn it'll be 99% researched (but no cigar). You NEED to be able to trust those timetables. Sometimes that tech being researched is Warp Drive, and that 1 movement is the difference between your transport reaching that undefended world or it having to wait a turn, when the other guy's able to crank a Defender out.