Research tanked

[ezisarious]

In my current game, I had 66 research points. A nasty Solar War broke out, and my points dropped to 34, which is no surprise. Once I was able to resolve the solar war, my research points never came back up. All trade considerations are favorable, 3 trade routes active. I double checked my totals and I should now have over 70. Any idea why this is happening? Is it s glitch? Or is there something else I maybe hadn't considered?

Thanks!

[fallen]

Jul 17, 2014 14:21:11 GMT -5 ezisarious said:

In my current game, I had 66 research points. A nasty Solar War broke out, and my points dropped to 34, which is no surprise. Once I was able to resolve the solar war, my research points never came back up. All trade considerations are favorable, 3 trade routes active. I double checked my totals and I should now have over 70. Any idea why this is happening? Is it s glitch? Or is there something else I maybe hadn't considered?

Thanks!

ezisarious - can you post some details about your difficulty and version of the game, a screenshot of your Empire Summary, and some explanation of what method you are using to count the 70+ RP? Also, are there other political conflicts going on?

[Rhayne]

This same problem happened to me.. and I just ended up starting over and not thinking much of it, thinking it'd be resolved before long.. but if its not a common bug, maybe I should speak up

Can't give exact numbers, but I had around 80 RP and then a solar war and trade war broke out, one after the other, I had never encountered either untill then. My RP dropped to around 40. And after say 15-20 turns my conflicts were gone, with no positive ones either.. Zero policies happening.. at this point my RP had went up to 50-60, yet by counting each of the colonies +RP at the bottom on each colony stat screen, I should have had over 100

Again, sorry I can't give exact numbers, I've deleted that game since then. :/ but I hope this in some way helps or valadates the OP

[Rhayne]

Oh, I was playing on 100x100 map with hard difficulty.

[Cory Trese]

Maximum RP output from a Colony is limited by the Population of the Colony.

Alliances generate additional RP, which will be removed if the Alliance is over.

Added these details to the Library for the next release.

I ran about 100K turns with RP diagnostics turned on and only see fluctuations that are explained by the rules.

Sorry -- no bugs to fix here! =)

A thread with the discussion about Population and RP:

startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/8416/exchange-iv-on-indy-worlds

[Rhayne]

thanks for the timely reply Corey
Love your work! Keep it up ^_^