Trade Permits Flipped After Trade Alliance

[strega]

In one of my games my sponsoring faction is Moklumnue that I quickly obtained a level 4 trading permit. I also managed to obtain a level 3 trading permit with Cadar. The two factions then entered a Trade Alliance. During the alliance I noticed that the message in the Moklumnue exchanges stating that because of the alliance, the trading permit from Cadar has granted level 4 access. I didn't think much of it at the time because I figured that it was a generic message just stating the highest permit level for the alliance. I do not recall if the Cadar exchanges also had a similar message. But when the alliance dissolved, I now have a level 3 trading permit with Moklumnue and a level 4 permit with Cadar.

I don't mind this error because I now have a better permit than before and can easily upgrade the Moklumnue permit back to level 4 But definitely not an intended outcome of a Trade Alliance. I backed up my save game just in case you need to take a look at it.

[fallen]

Sounds like there must be some confusion about the permits before and after the Trade Alliance. I will keep an eye on this, but nothing in the trade alliance code modifies any of the Rank/Permit/Rep data so this doesn't sound possible. Just reviewed the entire code base and ran through one Trade Alliance scenario here to be sure.

They do honor the Trade Permit tho. Actually, they will grant at a minimum of Trade Permit 2.

[Cory Trese]

I bet this is rep and permit loss auxiliary to the primary conflict that went unnoticed.

I've debugged this exact issue with four people over email, every time same solution is found.

Can you send a saved game?

[strega]

Uploaded as strega_trade_permits.zip to Dropbox. I didn't notice anything in the captain's log about losing the permit for anything -- come to think of it, I haven't run into a situation where I got a permit, edict, or rank revoked for traitorous actions. I remember getting those all the time in the original Star Traders.

There is a log entry for buying the level 3 permit from Cadar but nothing about buying a level 4 permit that I ended up with after the alliance dissolved.

[fallen]

I've taken a todo item to get the stripping of Rank / Edit / Permit added to your captain's log.

[fallen]

We did find a bug in permit management code and fixed it for the next update! Thanks for the post!