Political Parties bug with TA (and previous likely)?

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Everyone knows that if your political party loses the election, you're supposed to be penalized. You lose your political bonuses, and you also lose a little more on top of that.

However, when looking through the .XML files, I noticed something interesting.

The Technologists have +20 Research and +1 Sensors. When they lose the election, they lose the research and sensors bonus.

[Bonus]8:20 14:1[/Bonus]
[Penalty]8:-20 14:-1[/Penalty]

Looks great.

However, the Pacifists, War Party, Populists, Universalists, and Industrialists are NOT applying penalties correctly. For example, the Industrialists receive +20 social and military engineering.

[Bonus]6:20 7:20[/Bonus]

However, their penalty is described as such:

[Penalty]8:-25[/Penalty]

They lose 25% research, but apparently keep the industry bonuses. Weird...

Pretty easy bug to fix.

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The penalty does not add on top of bonuses.When you lose elections, you lose the bonuses as a first step then you also gain the penalties. So that means that for example if you are technologist and have a total bonus (in abilities screen)of +48 to research and +3 to sensors, then when you lose hold of the political party, you will first lose the bonus for -20 to research and -1 to sensors, then you will gain the penalties for another -20 to research and -1 to sensors, which will make your new abilities screen look like you got +8 to research and +1 to sensors

another scenario : federalist party bonus is 20% economics // penalty is -20% economics -30% diplomacy, when a federalist race lose hold of its federalist political party it gets a total of -40% to economics and -30% to diplomacy

 

So this is not a bug but a feature

Lastly to finish on the subject the Industrialist would get a total of -20 to social and military production (losing the bonus) and -25 to research (gaining the penalty) but who loses the political party hold anyway ... it's so easy to keep hold of it, it's not even funny...

(edit: ho and I just went back to TA with cheats to test the case quickly and I confirm the above)