In a current game of Proteus…
Tick 47
- Currently at 0 “Scanned Enemy Science”
- Now (finally) in scan range to trade with ally
- Bought scanning level 4 tech mid-tick, before bonus executed
- Manually counted 3 enemy science, but research screen still shows 0 (expected behavior more or less)
Tick 48 - BONUS TICK
- Bonus code runs delivering 0 bonus to me (NOT expected behavior)
- Scanned enemy science is now 3, after no bonus
I believe this is not the intended behavior because my scanning was improved BEFORE the bonus tick.
This is a different scenario than “my scanning tech completed the same tick as bonus” scenario…which I can’t seem to find the official Proteus order of tick events in the help index to confirm, but IIRC bonus is before tech applied, so would not get a bonus improvement. Could be wrong here…doesn’t matter regardless.
I think the bonus code should re-calculate a player’s scanned enemy science before calculating the actual bonus amount. OR a scan trade should trigger the update to scanned enemy science.
This was very noticeable simply because I was at 0 scanned enemy science, but improved my scan right before bonus and still received 0 bonus points.
Not the easiest thing to explain, so please let me know if I can provide any further clarity.
Thanks! 