This happened again. It said it was finished again before it was finished and I had to re-select it again. Looks like it has to do with re-loading the game.
Is there any chance that you were receiving the geothermal requisites via a trade route which you had to renew while you are building it? I have seen a sort of similar bug when I am building a unit with a strat resource requirement and one of my trade routes finishes, leaving me with not enough of that strat to build the unit. I get a notification saying the unit is finished, and it's removed from the build queue, and I have to manually restart building it once I set the trade route and get the resource back. Could this be related?
ansa said:
- Submarines do not pillage aquatic trade routes.
Kind of annoying and completely not accurate, during WW2 roaming German subs were the nightmare for the Atlantic and Pacific trade routes.
To clarify, are they not able to pillage trade routes at all, or do they just not auto-pillage if the unit passes over them?
MadDjinn said:
" AIs won't accept some agreements, even if respect is maxed and you are allied with them."
your #1 diplomacy issue is actually a misunderstanding and an issue with the UI.
Affinity level appears to be directly responsible for whether or not the AI will allow you to buy their 'good' (high benefit to you) services.
I had two AIs in a game refuse to sell me the same service for the longest time. One was full ally-9/9. The other didn't like me very much (neutral-3/9 ish). When I caught up in affinity level to the neutral AI, they let me buy the service. My 'ally' still wouldn't (different Affinity).
I didn't need to have that affinity 'top' of the 3, but just have it similar (within a point or two I think) of their top.
I don't think this is accurate. I have been able to get high-value agreements from AIs who did not share my core affinity, and I have been denied agreements by allies that share my affinity. It's a good theory but I don't think it will stand up to repeated testing, in the one case you experienced it I suspect it was coincidence.
My hypothesis is the AI makes the assessment based on how much they currently need the diplomatic capital you are offering. If they have a low DC income they will be more likely to accept a 15 / 25 DC per turn agreement. This is pretty much the only way I can explain why asking an AI turn after turn and suddenly being allowed to make the agreement on the 10th time asking works. Again, I have made Smart Grid with AIs I'm neutral with that have a different Affinity.
That's not to say Affinity has no affect, having the same Affinity does boost your respect score with AIs, which I think is also factored into whether they will make the deal.
bad_nickname said:
This quest auto-completed, even though I had not built any gene gardens, or even researched genetic design for that matter.
Any chance you can recall the name of that quest for reference?
Olodune said:
Here is a fun one. I loaded an old deus ex chemia game to check something, exited to the main menu, started a new game, and guess what:
That's... completely nuts. Were you able to replicate it at all, by loading the primordial first then another map second?
Just adding a bunch of these to the list now.