Problem with Research Points?

[Kelly Hrdina]

In my first game of SEIV (v 1.19), I ran into a problem with research points. At one point in the game, my Colonies screen indicated that 70,895 research points were being produced, and the research screen indicated that 74,658 research points were available. Things were looking good.

A few turns later, the Colonies screen indicated that 94,719 research points were being produced, but the Research screen listed my research points as exactly 50,000. It remained at 50,000 points for the remainder of the game.

So, what happened to reduce my available points to exactly 50,000? I would suspect enemy intelligence operations, but I was leading in intelligence at the time, and had one counter-intelligence (level 3) project going.

Thanks for any help, and apologies in advance if this had been discussed before.

Kelly Hrdina


[This message has been edited by Kelly Hrdina (edited 26 December 2000).]

[Kagetora]

When I first started playing I didn't think you needed space ports to gather research and intelligence points. But you do. Perhaps a space port in a system with alot of research got destroyed or you scrapped it without knowing this? It would still show up as being produced by your colonies but you would never get it to use.

[DirectorTsaarx]

I think earlier Versions of SE4 allowed research points to get distributed without space ports - I know it worked for me back on 1.02; it might have been fixed by 1.11 or 1.19. Kind of a pain - I forgot about this, and filled a world with research facilities but no spaceport, which means I've wasted a LOT of research (and I've needed it against the new AI...)

[terrylw]

My research points have been suddenly limited in exactly the same way. Now, no matter how many research points my colonies are producing - in this case over 100,000, I cannot use more anything other than exactly 50,000 in my research page. I has nothing to do with space ports.

This just started today after I loaded a saved game, and the save was 1.19 from Last night. So, now I am wondering what is up. Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, or similar happenings?

[Kelly Hrdina]

Thanks for the replies.

The problem is definitely not with space ports. I did have one planet with research and not space port, so its research point output was displayed inside ()'s on the Colonies screen. It was the only one.

None of my research labs were destroyed - the Colonies screen eventually listed me with over 127,000 research points produced, but the Research screen held steady at 50,000 points. Such a suspiciously round number! The odd thing is that it was correct for a while past 74,000 research points, then reverted back to 50,000.

[Daynarr]

You guys may consider sending e-mail to MM regarding this. Also make sure you put in your save game files (they are needed).