Chinese BP saved in Sian becomes Russian

[craigbear]

I saved a Chinese BP in Sian (communist city) and it became Russian. China cannot use the BP even though it is on map. I think this will happen if a BP is saved in any communist city by the Chinese. Later, I tried moving it when the BP save screen comes up, but I received an error message and could not do so.

Additionally (I believe due to this bug), after both allied and axis production is accomplished, the production for China again pops up and I am able to build Chinese units again (so I get two build opportunities). I have gotten around this issue by simply not using the build points and exiting through the save BP screen with resulting destruction of all these extra points (except for the one in Sian which remains in that city).

File attached (at Axis impulse start... so some of what I say can only be seen during the end turn phase). However, the ownership of the BP can be determined by hovering over the BP and looking at the unit screen.

Final note, this is repeatable... I did it in a previous game with the same results.

[Centuur]

Bug confirmed.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

The root cause (as for several similar problems) is that the player moving the Communist Chinese is the player moving the USSR units. Since the 'controlling' major power is the USSR, the program is making the saved build point Russian.

The simplest solution is to just save the build point in one of the Chinese cities in far western China. Why would anyone put it in Sian (or any other Communist Chinese controlled city) where the Japanese can capture it?

[craigbear]

I have done it twice... I don't generally think about ownership at this stage, and the saving is only for 1 turn. Sian is a simple city to read and one does not think about where to save something that is only temporary so long as it is not on the front lines. Japan does not usually move at lightning speed so that is a thought as well. It would be unusual for Sian to fall in the 2nd or 3rd turn. As well, newbies do not generally care if the city is nationalist or not. Why would a new player not save in Sian over other cities?

Obviously, I won't be doing it again... but it will assuredly happen to others (esp. new player). It should be corrected (depending on the ease of bug-fixing) even if at a low priority.