GAME INFORMATION
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- GAME BUILD #: ######
- GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store
- OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux
I’m sorry, I cannot provide any of these details as the bug comes from a video.
ISSUE EXPERIENCED
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Conjecture: the game allows you to tribute resources if you have resources when you open the Diplomacy panel, even if you don’t have those resource when you click to Confirm the tribute.
Evidence: https://youtu.be/RsL6G0hLfK8?t=1373
Player has 1423 food. They send 1000 food to another player, then immediately open the panel again. At the moment they open the panel, they still have ~1400 food, even though chat message says 1k was sent. After opening the panel, food at top left corner updates to 400, but the Diplomacy panel still says 1400: they send 1400 food to another player, according to the next chat message. Food goes from ~500 to 0. A second later, farmers deposit food, showing that food was not secretly negative (which makes sense since negative values of resources, like in 10x tech mode with Chinese, show up as negative).
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
Unknown
REPRODUCTION STEPS
It may be possible to confirm this bug by having 1000 wood, many farmers with Auto Reseed on, delete all farms and immediately open diplomacy panel. While panel is open, farmers should return and reseed farms, using up wood. If 1k wood can still be sent to another player, bug is confirmed. (In single-player, could use the Alt-F6 or whatever the cheat hotkey is to switch point of views.)
I cannot confirm this bug myself as I don’t have AoE2 DE or a computer that can handle it.
Other than that, try to do the same steps as in the video, with high latency. (It should be easy to artificially add latency.)
It may also be easy to test for this bug by having two players share the same player number, so one can spend resources while the other has the Diplomacy panel open.
EXPECTED RESULT
The amount tributed should be capped to the actual resources possessed at the moment the Confirm button is pressed and the action goes through (which could be a few frames later). Or, if the chat message is incorrect and the amount tributed was capped, then the chat message should be fixed.
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GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)
You might be able to obtain the recorded game for the player in the linked video.