Patronage influence drop rate breaks after savegame load

[slserpent]

So last night, I was playing my first game of Civ5 and chose the Patronage social policy (because my god those city-states are needy). That lowered the rate at which my influence was decreasing in both my non-hostile city state allies from 1 per turn to .75.

Today, I load the game and both of those same city-states' influence decrease rates are at 1.5, like I didn't even have Patronage and they were hostile. I've had to spend noticeably more gold to keep them allied, such that I'm only allied with one now; so, it's not a display error.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[The_J]

Please provide a savegame for this.

And welcome to CFC, nice to see that you joined to help us .

 

[slserpent]

Please provide a savegame for this.

Oh, right. Good call.

 

[Petek]

I looked at the save. Do you have a save from the turn before, possibly as an autosave?

I found a possible explanation for this situation. Could it be that two other civs have adopted the United Front policy? That policy causes other players' influence points to decrease 33% faster. The first United Front would change .75 back to 1.0 and second would change 1.0 to 1.333..., which might be rounded to 1.5. That seems pretty unlikely though.

I have a game going in which I adopted patronage and have met two City-States. With one, my influence decays at .75 per turn and the other at .50 per turn. That seems normal.

I'm going to call this "suspicious but not confirmed."

 

[DaveGold]

I've just played a game where I had five city state allies and I couldn't believe how slowly the influence was decaying under patronage.