Research Bug?

[Phier]

I'm a newbie (yes I know you are happy for me) so maybe I'm just missing something, but my research point total doesn't seem to go up as I add research facilities. I saw this in my first real game, so I did a few tests. The first test I sent out a few colony ships, built the facilities and the research total points went up, ok good. I start another 'real' game and have 3650 on my home planet and another 3000ish on a colony but in the research window I only get 3650 total points. Never changed over several turns as I built more research facilites on the colony. What am I missing here?

(I am using Version 1.35)


[This message has been edited by Phier (edited 10 May 2001).]

[Phoenix-D]

You DO have a spaceport in the same system as the colony, right?

Phoenix-D

[Phier]

Er ugh yea...er I have a spaceport, yea thats it.

[jc173]

Is your new research colony in a different star system, if so did you remember to build a space port in that system?

[capnq]

Another thing that can cause confusion: On the turn that a Research Facility is built, the window that lists each colony's Production (under hotkey F5) counts the new facility in the total, but the Research window (F8) doesn't get Research Points from it until the turn after it's built.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft


[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 11 May 2001).]