DogRed said:
In 1.05c, negative stockpiles of resources worked as follows; I'm not sure whether 1.06 has changed it; but it seems that some change was made.
In 1.05c, a country's coal, steel or rubber stockpile could go below zero, but the production of just one unit of these resources during the following day would send the stockpile into positive territory, regardless of how big the deficit. So let's say that Norway had -10,000 steel on day 1. If Norway produces just one unit of steel, Norway will have zero steel on day 2. As long as 24 hours passed before the conquering country took the capital, the conquering country would not get the negative coal, steel or rubber stockpile.
Oil worked differently for some reason. Negative oil stockpiles did not go positive with next-day production. Negative oil stockpiles remained negative until that country produced or imported enough to overcome the deficit. If, for example, Norway had -10,000 oil on day 1, and produced 100 units of oil per day, then on day 2 Norway will have -9,900 units of oil. A country that conquers Norway's capital would acquire the -9,900 oil.
Okay, I'll go you one better. This may or may not be the same bug but the results, sadly, were very similar.
I'm playing newly installed 1.06 (over a clean install) w/ pic pack, playing Germany (started in 1936) ... it's 1943, I'm holding back the Soviets on the Eastern front (barely) and preparing to go after the Brits.
Everything's cool ...
Oil: 1185 in reserve, producing 21, armed forces are using 172.
Coal: I've got 93K coal in reserve, producing 2350, industries require 1164 -- so this makes up for the oil problem (w/ coal being converted to oil at a 0.50 ratio).
I've only got < 60 mot/mech/armored divisions.
... then suddenly I go from approx 550 IC to 14 IC? Then I finally noticed Germany's oil reserves ... *negative* 250,000 (or somewhere around that number -- you can't see all the digits) ... I waited for several game days/weeks, clicked a bunch of different things (hoping it was a hiccup) ... no dice.
So I reloaded and ramped up to top speed to see if I could catch it again. I did, same time, same circumstances.
Here's more details: at the time this problem hits, the oil surplus drops from approx 1000 to approx -250K ... at the very *same* time, I also drop from a coal surplus of 85K or so down to 1200?
And the IC is again 14 now, as I mentioned, so this game is more or less hosed ...
So what triggered this?
I did NOT take an enemy capital ... the only thing I know to tell you is this bizzaro deal happened at exactly the same time I finished building 12 new destroyers (even before they were deployed). Maybe this will help ...
