I am playing a standard epic game on a large map. I switched to Communism and then built the SPHQ. This increased my corruption significantly. Is there some trick to using the SPHQ?

Here is my income and the city before I built the SPHQ.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads5/beforeSPHQ.GIF

Here is my income and city after building the SPHQ.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads5/afterSPHQ.GIF

And finally here is my map of the world. My palace in in red, the FP is in green and the SPHQ is in yellow.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads5/map1.GIF

EDIT: Anyone know why the images don't show up. I uploaded them to the server and then included the 'img' command with this url "http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads5/beforeSPHQ.gif"?

Ah hah! It is case sensitive.

Maybe the police themselves are corrupt? http://civ3.1bigcommunity.com/emot/Confused/confused091.gif "If you can't trust the Gestapo, who can you trust?"

I also noticed that after it was built, your nation's entire income dropped by about 250 gold and your research is taking 4 turns longer. It looks like your corruption gained by about 300 bucks.

WHY it did so is a mystery. What exactly does the SPHQ do again?

Secret Police Headquarters

It's a known bug. It also does it for the FP.

check the 'corruption issues' thread in this forum. :(

One word: Absurd!

Originally posted by Mercade
One word: Absurd!

Make that : "One word : Bug !" :)

I prefer "Incompetence"

BTW I thought there was a big beta program for this release. Maybe I was wrong :)

Edit: Just to be clear. I'm not accusing the beta testers of incompetence. They were only testers and, obviously, didn't play any part in the coding process. It would be interesting to know if these bugs were in the beta but Atari's lawyers will no doubt prevent any such disclosure.


Ted

I was not in the Beta, but my understanding is that this bug arrived between the beta tests and the launch of the product.