Weird science

[NickyH]

What could explain this behavior?

I had two turns left to get mass production, with science set to 90%. I finished the turn, but on the next, I still had two turns left. I thought that maybe a tile that was polluted on that turn could have made the difference, if the income from it didn't count. So I went back to the auto save, and increased science to 100% in order to widen the margins, and ended the turn. Still the same result: It didn't count down from two to one turn.

So I thought maybe something else might have changed between the turns, and went back two turns, so there was three turns left, and increased science to 100%. I thought the margins would be wider that way, so I surely would get mass production in time. Just to widen the margins further, I joined six workers into cities with universities and almost no corruption. (And they were added to tiles with at least two gold income.) Now the time too mass production counted down until it was one turn left, but then it got stuck there, so it still said one turn left on the next.

Can someone explain this? While it happened, I had an SGL increasing science, but I got him only a few turns earlier, so the effect from him certainly didn't end while it occurred.

 

[Marsden]

Can someone explain this? While it happened, I had an SGL increasing science, but I got him only a few turns earlier, so the effect from him certainly didn't end while it occurred.

That's your explanation, the science age doesn't work. You wasted you SGL on nothing. Sorry. Best not to do it again.

 

[NickyH]

Don't know if I understand your answer correctly. Do you mean that there's a bug so that the effect of an SGL doesn't count as it's supposed to do?

 

[JDAllison]

Yep, unfortunately. I found that out on here, and I'm sure glad I did!

 

[Bartleby]

The SGL "golden age" is known to be bugged; the game tells you your science has been increased but in fact it hasn't.
What you are seeing is the "proof" of the bug.


edit: note to self...don't answer phone calls while posting.

 

[NickyH]

Big thanks to all of you for answering so fast! I was just going to start playing again, and now theres not too many rounds that'll be lost if I go back to when I got the SGL. I'll save him for ToE instead.

 

[AutomatedTeller]

Good plan!!

 

[Aabraxan]

I'll save him for ToE instead.

Good plan!!

Just as a slight addendum to this: NickyH, you may already be aware of this, but you will be unable to generate an MGL as long as you hold that SGL.

 

[Padma]

But you *will* be able to get more SGLs.

 

[NickyH]

Just as a slight addendum to this: NickyH, you may already be aware of this, but you will be unable to generate an MGL as long as you hold that SGL.

Thanks, thats important information.

And I was whimsical when I said I'd save him for ToE, since I already have it. Not that my correction matters much to the world, but it will rather be for SETI or Internet.

 

[rysingsun]

but it will rather be for SETI or Internet.

how many turns of MGL are you sacrificing for this?

 

[NickyH]

how many turns of MGL are you sacrificing for this?

Well, I guess it would have been about 30-40 if I went for computers and SETI first in the modern era. I was not at war when I got the leader, but I started one after a while, so it became a problem.

However I noticed that I could not possibly win the game in any way, because the Sumerians were too close to win by cultural score, so eventually i gave up.