Hello all tonight I had just met the dregin empire, so I desided to try to get some research goods from them and a little extra money, when I clicked money it said they had none, so I noticed it was still highlighted as seen in first picture

So then I clicked on Influence thinking that if I can't get money I'd get that. To my surprise I got the same message, The Dregin Empire has no money. (last time I checked influence wasn't money) as shown in picture below. After clicking the box closed I was able to eventually get 73 influence points.

I have a saved game and the debug.err files saved if needed.