[.71.1] Research Bonus from Anomaly Buggy ?

i.e. overwriting research instead of adding to it

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Somewhere around turn 160 +/-10 last night I decided to research that previously completely-ignored weapons technology - no wonder that late in the game I was told I'd need only a single turn to do so for the first step....  at the same time one of my 4 survey ships came across one of these "you get 25% of your current research" events... oh well, not that I really needed this...:-)

BUT: next turn I was at only 25% done - should have been 100% ?!

So is there a problem with order of evaluation or a race condition somewhere in the "apply resaerch bonus from anomaly" code - as the research points available to me without that bonus should have been enough to finish in 1 turn, anyway?

The complication I have to point out is this was a savegame from 0.71.0 that I loaded into 0.71.1 earlier in order to solve the barren planet related crashes...  So if there is a known problem with loading games saved without the opt-in patch later after applying the opt-in patch.... feel free to ignore this

But as this situation isn't that easy to trigger on purpose and the bug might be missed in other not so extreme cases, I wanted to err on the side of caution :-)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have seen this issue pop up as well.   I switch techs alot to game the artifact tech bonus that you can receive.   I have on multiple occasions noticed that if I switch to a different tech that it won't apply the tech points to that Technology and thus I lose a turn of tech spend.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

@furinix is it possible the turn did not actually end? ships with ongoing move orders cause the game to think you're ready to end your turn however if any of those ships have remaining moves you will be asked to issue new orders to them if any of those ships were colony ships that reached planets now you're going into the colonize screen and possibly the ideology screen constructors hitting starbase now upgrade starbase pops. Just the way the game goes often makes one turn feel like 2 or 3 turns

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

At least for me.. it wasn't that case.  It was a turn with no technology spend recognized by the tech you had at the end of the turn

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've added this to our list to look at.  Thanks. :)