Mod: noob modder (simple) - is there a bug with scales?

[Agarthan Raider]

hey everyone, this is my first post in this forum, but i've been playing this game for at least 2+ years, it is hands down the best game ever made period.

anyway, after months and months of saying "i'm going to mod this game someday" i've finally started.

i started with a real basic mod adding a few holy sites which seems to work great, however, one of my new sites is a magic scale increase to the province using "#decscale 5"

in my test game, everything on the surface appears to work. on the map, in the scales section of the province info with the +magic site, the province correctly reports a 3 magic rating. however, when i built a lab there and moved a researcher in, i did not receive the +2 research bonus i expected. it was a 4-researcher (Mictlan priest with 1-star xp) and i only received 4 rps instead of 6 rps. i verified this both in the cmdr view screen and the magic research screen. sux man.

any ideas?

thanks in advance.