[.915][Bug] Diplomacy bug

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Just played my first game of FE. I'm very impressed! Ran into a small bug though - another faction offered to trade me 4 Civilization research points for... 4 Civilization research points. Repeatedly. In about 20 turns, I was offered that deal 10-15 times. I took it every time, assuming it would help my relations with them. 

 

Sorry I don't have more details. This was my 'first impressions' run. Like I said, I'm super impressed. This is what I expected EWoM to be. Love the faction differences. Love the items to find. Love the streamlined building menus. Love the tooltips. Love Love Love.

 

Yes!! I'm very excited for FE, I was brutally disappointed with EWoM, even after the patches, it just wasn't interesting or fun. But FE - it feels FUN. I got my butt kicked the first time, but that's ok, I learned! I'll do better next time. :D

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

If I'm not mistaken, research points of the same variety can be traded and they go immediately into researching a random tech in that tree. The benefits of trading civ. research points with the AI for civ. research points is that the points go towards researching a tech in the civ tree. Otherwise, you cannot use your own civ. research points to gain tech research.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

That seems awful abusable to me....But maybe I don't understand the system. 

 

Does trading research points affect my currently progressing research? If not, I should be trading same for same every turn, with every civ...I suppose it helps them too, but that's a way to severely accelerate the pace of research if it doesn't affect my current research...

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

If you're trading Civilization for Warfare or vice versa and you're currently training something in the magic tree, the research points go to one of the sections you haven't trained yet in the Civilization/Warfare tree...hope this makes sense :/

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Here is a scenario that will hopefully make things clearer:

 

I am the Trog faction. Me stomp. Me like warfare techs. Me have 300 warfare research points. Horse riding tech still at 0 /100 research points (horse good for eat, not ride). 

 

Puny weaklings say, "give 100 warfare points for 100 warfare points." Me kill their messenger, send back head. Attached to messenger severed head reads note: "ok, you get points." Me get 100 warfare points. They go into horse riding [its a random tech at the lowest tier of the tree that is not yet researched]. Now me ride horse instead of eat. Me sad...

 

[So, I still have 200 warfare points that I cannot use unless I trade them to another faction for additional research points.]