AI achieves trade victory . during game all trade posts are white until post game and they appear red

Age of Empires III: DE III - Report a Bug
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  • GAME BUILD 100.15.59076.0
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux

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I probably would have lost anyway.. but .. a trade victory approaching /iminent happened. i went looking for the trade posts . the ai opponent was red , I was blue. all of the trade posts were white. once the tradevictory happened and i abandoned the town, 3 tradeposts appeared as red.

this happened just once. but in the past i have noticed that I cannot build on trading posts when they appear empty so perhaps that is related.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:backhand_index_pointing_down: the trading posts not being buildable I notice quite often

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Well, the reason is quite simple. Under fog of war, you see buildings frozen in the state they were when you last actually visited that place. If there are new buildings built or old ones destroyed, you only learn about it by scouting the map more actively.

Once the game ends whole map is revealed, so that is when you see the true state of everything on the map.

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I should have known this. thanks for this information.

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