Short story: I did not have enough minerals for a trade deal I struck (I guess I just spent some on a new building and did not have enough left on stock, when the next month hit and tried to deduce a certain amount of minerals for diplomacy), so my opinion with an empire took a hit, which lead to them breaking up the migration pact, then the research pact etc. - all my diplomacy with them cascaded down the drain, although I had 150 trust with them for being associates with my federation for years and years: and now I can't reestablish the pacts, because the "Broke Trade Deal" modifier takes 50 years to go away!
Could you please fix this somehow? Like deducing the minerals I use for diplomacy from my income instead of my stock? Or taking it from stock only after the income from new materials for the month have come in / been booked? - It's not that I could not afford it in general, but that the income happens after the diplo / trade-payments!
Long story: I made trade deals to get a "good enough" standing with an AI empire so I could start commercial and research and migration pacts one by one and finally give them association status with my empire - it was quite an effort which I was proud of getting it to work out. All was well, until some pirates spawned and suddenly I had a large deficit in energy and consumer goods, and my only option was to ask all friendly empires for huge trade deals to ameliorate the situation (- I already had looked at edicts and policies and galactic market etc. and nothing else was gonna do the job - I dealt with the pirates, my trade income returned (energy and consumer goods), and all was well again. - Until suddenly the above mentioned cascade occured, because the diplomatic trade deals I had in place where so substantial, that I could not pay the monthly minerals (that I had to trade away for consumer goods) from my stock, and instead of the minerals being deduced from my income first, the game tried to deduce it from stock, before the mineral income for the same month was booked, and so I pretty much lost all diplomatic gain I had worked so hard to get with that empire, because of accounting happening in the wrong order...!
Edit: looking back, it wasn't all that bad - it took me 10 months to get my fleet to the pirates, so having my trade unintentionally cancelled avoided me being trapped in a trade that was trading like 70 of my 170 monthly minerals income away for another 9 years or so... - and although I would have liked to keep my pacts, the Corporation Branch I established is still standing and functional with that empire - I'm still marginally "in the green" diplo-wise.
Could you please fix this somehow? Like deducing the minerals I use for diplomacy from my income instead of my stock? Or taking it from stock only after the income from new materials for the month have come in / been booked? - It's not that I could not afford it in general, but that the income happens after the diplo / trade-payments!
Long story: I made trade deals to get a "good enough" standing with an AI empire so I could start commercial and research and migration pacts one by one and finally give them association status with my empire - it was quite an effort which I was proud of getting it to work out. All was well, until some pirates spawned and suddenly I had a large deficit in energy and consumer goods, and my only option was to ask all friendly empires for huge trade deals to ameliorate the situation (- I already had looked at edicts and policies and galactic market etc. and nothing else was gonna do the job - I dealt with the pirates, my trade income returned (energy and consumer goods), and all was well again. - Until suddenly the above mentioned cascade occured, because the diplomatic trade deals I had in place where so substantial, that I could not pay the monthly minerals (that I had to trade away for consumer goods) from my stock, and instead of the minerals being deduced from my income first, the game tried to deduce it from stock, before the mineral income for the same month was booked, and so I pretty much lost all diplomatic gain I had worked so hard to get with that empire, because of accounting happening in the wrong order...!
Edit: looking back, it wasn't all that bad - it took me 10 months to get my fleet to the pirates, so having my trade unintentionally cancelled avoided me being trapped in a trade that was trading like 70 of my 170 monthly minerals income away for another 9 years or so... - and although I would have liked to keep my pacts, the Corporation Branch I established is still standing and functional with that empire - I'm still marginally "in the green" diplo-wise.
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