Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

I think this is a new bug, I don't believe it used to do this. After merger with Anlin Inc., my ongoing Canned Soup research already 1 years in from 151->195 got dropped, in favor of its 73->168 research. I've encounter several occasions like this, and it always resets my own research in favor of the subsidiaries' (even if my tech is hundreds of points ahead). This is very annoying and extremely time consuming to check every tech progression before merger, and impossible to predict if spying on AIs is turned off. It doesn't even give a warning when the tech get reset, you have to manually find it.

This issue has been addressed in the latest patch v2.635 which you may download from http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... f=7&t=2534

This is finally working, and you would retain the old tech level. However, this brings an interesting question, what if AI's tech advance progress is higher than parent's company? Would player be able to keep its tech progress? It looks that way at the moment, and you actually get certain invisible intangible assets from tech progress this way, and its logical, researchers/scientists working in a lab usually don't care who funds their work, but only the works they are doing. Not going to abandon or sabotage their own work (or others) because the money comes from new source. (that would be an interesting mechanics to add though, corporate espionage, where you can sabotage others progress in business or science, or steal their trade secrets )

Now R&D projects from both companies in the merger are intact and the player can manually choose which one to terminate as he/she prefers.