Mineral shortage compounds itself

[Seomis]

It appears there's an unadvertised (in the resource shortage tooltip) 50% penalty to mineral production that is caused entirely by mineral shortages. An empire can find itself in a situation where it should have positive mineral income, but the shortage status alone keeps it negative.

 

[Wyrm]

Sounds like the type of situation where you desperately trade for minerals. As soon as you manage to have a positive amount by the end of a month, the penalty will be lifted and you should be back in the green again.

 

[ForzaA]

Thank you for your report.

I'm not seeing this effect at all - the only mineral production reduction I see is from a energy credit shortage.
Do you happen to have a save showing this unadvertised penalty?

 

[Seomis]

Actually, I'm not able to reproduce it myself. I'm going to go ahead and guess this was just user error--sorry about that!