Ideology point disappearing

from GalCiv3 Forums

Hi All, Love your game, but have the following, repeatable bug: I have an ideology point in "Pragmatic". I am saving it for later use. I aquire another point in "malevolent".  I spend the malevolent point and my point in "pragmatic" vanishes. However, if I spend the pragmatic point first, my malevolent point is still there. I'm on GC3 Crusade / Windows 7. I have a save game linked below if desired.

Thanks

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1riVZz4a5laTjf5pieIc1T-Uepe_9Hdxx

8,476 views 3 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hello. This is just a guess, but your observation may not be a bug. You have to be aware that every time you spend an ideology point, the cost for the next ideology point is raised. Not just in the branch you've spent that point in, but also in the other branches. If you accumulated just enough pragmatic points to use an ideology point there, but then use an ideology point in another branch, the cost for using the ideology point in the prgmatic branch may be raised beyond the amount of accumulated points.

You can see the accumulated points by hovering your mouse over the ideology headers, and the cost for your next ideology point by hovering over any of the traits you can buy.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Franton, reply 1

Hello. This is just a guess, but your observation may not be a bug. You have to be aware that every time you spend an ideology point, the cost for the next ideology point is raised. Not just in the branch you've spent that point in, but also in the other branches. If you accumulated just enough pragmatic points to use an ideology point there, but then use an ideology point in another branch, the cost for using the ideology point in the prgmatic branch may be raised beyond the amount of accumulated points.

You can see the accumulated points by hovering your mouse over the ideology headers, and the cost for your next ideology point by hovering over any of the traits you can buy.
End of Franton's quote

This.

SD changed this a few patches back to encourage people to stick to one ideology.

Star Control: Origins