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Old February 6th, 2004, 01:12 AM
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Default Re: Dominions II Bug Thread

Found another (possible) turn sequencing related bug.

- Hosted the turn.
- I then read the Messages. I see a message that reads like: "There was a battle in Fom". The report indicates that I lost two units in the battle (which I won).
- A little further down the Messages list I see a message that reads "Your troops in Fom are starting to starve due to lack of supplies."
- I click on Go To Province and I look at Fom. Supply Usage 54, Supplies 56. (Net 2 surplus.) I examine my units and, indeed, some are starving.

My conclusion from this is that battles take place, not at the end of a turn, but at the beginning of a new one. So that the sequence appears to be:

- magic
- move
- advance the Calendar and calculate supply for the new turn (tag units as starving *now*)
- execute battle
- update UI stats

I had thought the sequence was suppose to be:

- magic
- move
- fight
- advance Calendar, calculate supply (tag units as starving if any), update UI

If battles take place at the end of a turn, then units which are killed will no longer be around to use up supplies for the coming month. Even if the battle takes place at the start of a month, killed units still won't be around to eat. So the supply calculation needs to reflect this.
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