Two Annoying Domestic Economy Bugs

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Hi! Two bugs that I've seen in several builds, including the most recent. (4Z)
1> If you click the arrows on either side of the sliders on the domestic economy screen, it does not update the screen until you make some other change, like clicking off the screen, re-clicking the Domestic Policy screen, or clicking one of the sliders again. (Which then doesn't register the new change until you make another change ... etc.)

2> If you save and reload the game, the domestic cashflow can *radically* change. The slider positions remain the same, but the amount of net cash coming in drops. In the most drastic case I've seen so far, I had to drop from about 55% government spending to about 36% to break even.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I've reported that second one before. Basically, it ends up that if you have cartloads of money coming in, NEVER save & reload, because if you do you're screwed.

I suspect it's because some aspect of the economy gets off-kilter in the game as you play, and when you reload it recalculates and fixes the problem.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
You have to save and reload unless you leave your computer on 24/7. I've yet to complete a game in under 30 hours. This is a bug that been reported in other threads.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Issue number 2 hit me last night. Before the I restored from the save I was cruising along on 100% spending (due to a bull market and multiple maxed economy resources) with a surplus of around 150 bc per turn.

After the restore I had to drop my spending slider down to 26% just to break even.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, this morning I've been spending some time analyzing the first bug reported, and I believe that I have fixed it. It wasn't that the screen wasn't being updated, but it was doing some calculations out of order, so it didn't get corrected until the second time that the screen was updated.

To solve the second I'm going to have to do some serious investigating. I tried reproducing it quickly, but it may indeed be a slow degeneration that causes it to occur. I'll continue to try to reproduce it here, but if one or two of you who regularly get this bug could start taking screenshots of your domestic policy screen before you save and then send them to me along with the save game files once you've reproduced the bug, it might help me to fix it more quickly.

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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I think we all get it a lot - I think its right that it gradually creeps in after extended play. I had never thought of that - just assumed the game re-set after reload was not saving some variable or other when you saved and came back in
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