Please help to explain: is this a trade bug in PBEM?

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I posted this question in the Aggie vs ERIKK thread as well, but I wanted to get a bigger audience.

I think I'm dealing with a bug in my PBEM vs ERIKK.

I'll explain what happened:

Turn 140:
As always I check my citizens' moods to avoid rioting.

Turn 141:
60% of my cities riot!! I think: that must be a lux deal that expired. So I get a new one with my neighbour: 2 lux for 1 lux and gpt. Of course I MM again to pevent rioting.

Turn 142:
Same story: 60% of my cities riot. THE DEAL WITH MY NEIGHBOUR IS GONE!! This is weird enough, but as a test I again make the same trade deal. My neigbour agrees as if nothing happened. I do not suffer a rep hit.

Turn 143:
Same story. A lot of riots, the deal has gone and I'm still able to make a new deal. Exactly the same deal as in 141 and 142.

I lost 3 turns here.

ERIKK and me tried to explain it, but failed.

Here's more info on our situation:

- My neighbour and me are at peace with the whole world
- Our trade route goes trough ERIKK's harbour. We don't have a direct route.
- EDIT: ERIKK is in anarchy

We thought about a galley blocking the trade route. But that would be strange, because my Greece and I don't get a rep hit after the first occurance. And I have the Great Lighthouse, so I can cross the sea, were galleys can't come. I know enough of the world to travel over sea squares to ERIKK's harbour.

Could someone please help us explain this? Is it a bug? Is it perfectly normal and just bad luck for me?

This is the world:

AgEk2141world2.jpg


This is the deal at turn 141:

AgEk2141deal.jpg


This is turn 142, no deal:

AgEk2142nodeal.jpg


But I'm able to make almost the same deal again (I've less cash, so that's the difference):

AgEk2142deal.jpg


Same happens in turn 143.

This is ERIKK's harbour:

AgEk2ERIKKharbour.jpg


Could someone please help me explain it? I lost 3 turns. I'd say that it's a bug, but then what? How to avoid it?
 
I say it's a bug too. Maybe you can work around it by making two seperate deals?

If not maybe you can use it to your advantage buying techs for lux, getting the deal broken without the rep hit, rinse and repeat. Oh no, that would be cheating :D
 
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