[1.0.3.5] Bugged infinite -50K

[mordachai]

I must have been right on the edge of 50K savings, when I agreed to build a construction science center. Maybe an instant later my reserves dropped to 49.9K ?

But after that, my money drops to 0 and cannot recover. As far as I can tell - the game tries to deduct -50k every single tick, uses up whatever positive amount I made, but never reduces my "debt" - so I'm still 50K in the hole... forever.

there's no UI element to cancel that order - so I'm !@#$@!$ in that game.

q.v. save for a view of the nightmare economy.

PS: I'm seeing constant examples of space creatures inside of stars. Makes my fleets spend all of their fuel pointlessly trying to get at it - but they never can (I have to use the game editor to zoom inside the star to zap the rogue gyrax or whatever they're called).

[mordachai]

I went back in time to my previous save - about 20m real life - and the issue wasn't there. So I played for a bit - made sure I didn't run the econ in to the ground - but then suddenly I had a very similar issue: I'm seeing -10K reserved by advisor for Barracks in noia or whatever.

Well, I didn't ask for anything to be built at all. I don't have auto-build nor default to allow building buildings at colonies. So it required my permission - and I never gave it.

And even though my econ is regularly showing > 10K positive during a tick, that -10K drag on the econ never gets resolved.

Looking at that world - there isn't a barracks under construction at all. I tried going ahead an creating one there... then destroying it. Still leaves this -10K in my econ ledger regardless.

This is a pretty nasty bug - since there's simply no way to know what triggered it, nor how to get out of it now that it's occurred :'(

Best game so far up until this snafu

Attached is the save with this new, -10K bug.

[mordachai]

I rolled back to 1.0.3.3, loaded from the earlier save, and tried again.

this time I did not get the "xxK reserved by administrator for Y building". The economy doesn't show a negative in the econ screen.

However... my economy, despite currently showing around 25-30K excess constantly - is shrinking. Just... shrinking slowly away. All of that surplus should be driving my savings up. No. It's... disappearing, very similar to before, but this time the game is hiding where that money is being stolen away for/to. It's just... missing.

so this particular game is dead. There's just no way to play when no matter how well the econ is doing - it's magically being siphoned away on a massive basis, leaving me with less & less & less.

Sucks a bunch.

Save is the current state of the game - where it looks okay - but magically the money just... never... accumulates (without explanation).

[ChattyAnny]

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