[1.11.08]Forced sale of water bonanza

[Il_Palazzo]

Reposting this from the beta thread for visibility:

Hi. I'm getting the forced sale of water bug (it's a bug, right?). My traders are raking up thousands per turn despite water being plentiful for everybody (seas and precipitation). Started happening around turn 40 and looks like the amount sold is steadily growing.
I see on the previous page somebody mentioned it having been fixed in the latest patch - but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Just to throw in another data point, I'm the other player in this game and I'm seeing nothing like this for my own territories. I'm version 1.11.08, and have been for the whole game.

For clarity, we're both on 1.11.08.
I'm told there's some dry areas on the planet, so maybe it's working as intended? But it feels like a bug, so possibly a bug. And in any case, one player getting 2-3k per turn through no merit of their own breaks a MP game and should be somehow curtailed.

[Elver]

The turn after the above was reported, I captured two zones (one coastal w/rivers and swamps, one with no such terrain and some desert, but mostly damp) and on the next turn I had forced-sale of ~6k water. The turn after that, however, I was back to discarding my excess water. So it's oddly inconsistent on top of being inexplicable.

[phyroks]

Turn 68 siwa(?) and 1st time I saw the water sales happening in this version, the traders bought as much water as they had credits, they now have 0.

The water sales are occurring way less than older versions but its still odd to see them buy as much as their wallet allows when there is most likely no major with water issues and minors are dead(i think).

End turn save before this happening and one when it has happened.

[Vic]

I agree guys. This is not the behaviour I was looking for. Expect this to be nudged in upcoming beta .09

best wishes and thanks for reporting!

Vic

[phyroks]

Updated to [1.11.09], now they did not auto buy so much water that their credits ran dry... Shame that i can manually sell them enough water to empty their wallet, think the water market still needs bit more work, like making sure they dont want to buy more

[Vic]

Thanks for continued feedback! I have not finished with those Traders yet!

If you could send me an auto-savefile from before the turn where they want to buy so much that will help me speed up things a lot.

vic@vrdesigns.net

best wishes,
Vic