Upgrade bug

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When you're building multiple Basic Labs simultaneously and discover Xeno Research, sometimes a bunch of Basic Labs "finish" immediately as Xeno Labs... and don't add to your research production. Even worse, when you decommission the apparently worthless buildings, that DOES deduct from your research -- so it's as if your Civilization Capital/Colony Centers lost 8 of their research production!
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
This has been true since the very first release of GalCiv II. After this happens, save and reload the game - you will see the proper point values from your improvements then.

I always check my build queues in the civ manager before I finish researching factories, labs, etc. and either buy out or rearrange the builds so this won't happen. If I forget to do this or if I trade or steal one of these techs, I have gotten in the habit of automatically saving and then reloading before I end that turn.

It's a serious pain, but I've never even seen the devs acknowledge it as an issue, so I don't think they plan to try to fix it.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you do reload, does it constitute an exploit? Can you finish a Basic Lab and research Invention Matrix in the same turn, have Auto Upgrade on, and get an Invention Matrix?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
No, this bug only happens when you're in the process of building an improvement and you research/trade for/steal the next level of that improvement on the same turn it finishes building.

So if on Planet X you have 1 turn to go before finishing an Enhanced Factory and you invade a planet and steal Manufacturing Centers, on the next turn a Manufacturing Center will appear on that tile, but it will not be functional - i.e., it will not add any production to the planet. Once you save and reload, it will function normally.

I suppose you could exploit this by trying to get a bunch of the same improvement to the 1-turn mark and trading for the improvement, hitting end turn to get the next level building, then reloading to get the things running... but that's an awful lot of micromanagement for a pretty small return.