broken research crash

[taltamir]

uploaded as taltamir 1.0.4.4 2010-05-03 broken research crash.rar

If I am crashing research, and I then gain the tech in question via tech trade, it gets "stuck" on crashing it for the next tech level (giving it to me for a cheaper cost of crashing), if it is the last tech level, it gets stuck on it "semi-permanently"... i say semi, because I can still crash other research even though it is not displayed properly.

[Fishman]

That still hasn't been fixed?

[taltamir]

actually, i was wrong about it being possible to work around... i crashed shields research, but now i came back and i see torpedoes is still crashed... so the 360,000 i spent crashing shields did not help me at ALL!

[sbach2o]

I think this was supposed to be fixed for 1.0.3 (which I am still playing), and there I have it seen once, as well.

IIRC, It happened when I got a research bonus from retireing an abandoned ship I had taken over. That bonus just brought me the next tech advance in the area I had crashed. I waited until the next advance was reached, then the crash program ended. I don't want to imagine what migth have happened, had the advance from the retired ship been the very last item in the area [;)]

ORIGINAL: 1.0.3 patchnotes

18. Fixed crash research program sometimes not stopping (tm.asp?m=2419493)

Not all instances of this bug have been fixed yet, it seems.