Was playing a huge metaverse game and was about 1/2 way through. Good econ and could see that things were pretty much over for the AI's unless they banded together and attacked me all at once.
Then something interesting happened. I noticed that my income went from around a 9000 credit treasury to a negative number so large that I had .... at the end of it as it was to big to fit on the screen. Thinking it might go away I proceeded to play on through the turn.
My sliders were something like
taxes around 70%
production slider at 100%
ships- 10%
Social-45%
Research45%
My approval was something around 75%
I did notice that my credits were earning around 6000-7000 but I didnt pay much attention to it as when I slide the production slider to 0% it didnt change more then 10-20 BC. I kept production at 100% and hit my end of turn.
Here is where things got rather interesting. I wish I would have noticed earlier so I could have saved the game a turn or so before this all happened.
My ship production went to never on all my colonys which would indicate that I was screwed on making ships for the rest of the game as the negative treasury number was so large that I would never make a dent in it paying it off at 6k a turn.
My research was the nifty thing. I think I was about 1/2 way or so researching missle weapons. I went straight to the end filling out the whole technology tree.
I tried another end turn and this time selected a technology tree that was pretty much empty and again it went through the whole tree. Think I picked up about 3/4's of the shield technology.
Anyways thought I would report it as I havent seen this happen so far. Not really to concerned as I will load a save game well before the fun started and will see if it happens again.
The game is not crashing and works just fine other then the irregularities of the economy and research.