1.1b1 and up economic bug

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Ok, this tax revenue bug, intentional or not, was hard for me to figure out how it was happening.

When the tax revenue bug or "feature" occurs, your tax revenue drops by a percentage equal to around half your current tax rate. (i.e. 1000 bc tax revenue will drop to 800 bc with bug if your tax rate is 40%, since 20% of 1000 is 200)

This only affects tax revenue and not overall income.

As for the cause, I FINALLY pin-pointed it. This bug or feature occurs whenever a race, human or A.I., gets over 20000 bc.

This definately explains why my economic graph fluctuates every turn or so once I get around 20000bc, spend some to get below 20000bc, then go above 20000bc again when tax revenue returns to normal, and have it drop once again as soon as I go over 20000bc.

This has worked for me on every difficulty level I've tried. Normal -> Crippling

Was this intentional?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
Not the current revenue, the amount of money in treasury is what triggers the econ bonus drop. I've observed it in my last game. When my treasury was over 10000BC, the econ graph dropped by ~5 percent in the next turn. When over 20000BC, graph (and revenue) dropped by 15-20%. I didn't test higher, it was quite a demanding game.

BR, Iztok
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, i see this to in my current game.
My treasury is around 20000BC and my income is fluctuating from -250BC to +350BC iirc.

Up to this point my income was slowly growing and suddenly it started. (i also had that drop around 10000BC)
It could be my playing style, because i have a lot of factory's and i suddenly started pumping out constructors.

But yes, it's strange and i can't put my finger on it.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I saw something about this in another thread at one point. It's supposed to be a design choice to prevent hoarding. I was only aware of it happening around 20K. I didn't realize there was a 10K threshold as well.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sounds like another way for espionage to work in my mind. I to have noticed that when I have at excess amount of cash in a game I see yellow and green back and forth. I tend to take it as a warning though and drop the tax rate a bit if at all possible. Maybe its not a bug but more of a feature?

W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't noticed the drop at 10k bc, but the 20k bc treasury drop is definately noticeable. The only thing wrong with that is by the time I get to 20000 bc, the drop won't really affect me that much.

Checking the change in tax revenue at the 20k bc border, my original idea of the amount of drop still seems to work within 1%. That being your tax revenue (Not total income, just tax revenue drops) drops by a percentage equal to half your current tax rate. Either that or it just might have been a coincedence each time I've looked at it, but that isn't likely since it's worked at different tax rates.