Bug. Territory flipped to Athens in the middle of my turn resolution with no explanation.

[Tharoz]

I'd like to know if anyone knows what causes this bug to trigger, so I can avoid it in future. Got this bug on my first MP game of Fields of Glory: Empires, so I'm hoping it's not common.

Playing a MP game, and near the start of turn resolution, as my armies are moving, all of my territory suddenly flipped control from Macedon to Athens. Then a few seconds later all of my armies flipped to Athens as well.

I'm not aware of any historical situation that would have had an effect like this, and I didn't get any notification of an event, so I can only see it as a bug.

I was at war with Athens at the time, and the only message I got was a few territory loss notifications and then a notification that the war was over, presumably because I now had no territory or armies to carry on a war.

I have attached some screenshots as my turn resolved. As you can see, at the start of the turn Macedon is there, Athens controls three regions in the Peloponnese.

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Then my territory has flipped to Athens. You can see that it is still the same turn, and the armies are still Macedonian, and have just started moving.

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Then finally, I get the announcement that my capital is lost, and you can see at the edge of the message that my armies have flipped to
Athens.

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Needless to say this killed our MP game, so we'd be keen to stop it happening again.

[Laboratorium]

The only "normal" explanation I could see for this, was if you had traded all your territories to Athen in a peace treaty or a trade agreement.

I have never seen this happen as a bug before and I have played a lot of turns.
You could go on and see if there was a message. Because if it was a trigger or a trade agreement, you would probably get a message.

[Tharoz]

No messages received, apart from those telling me my territory had been lost.

Although, if that was the case, I don't believe it would have been able to give away my armies, unless someone knows different.

[Sarissofoi]

It may happen if you ask to Absorb nation but instead actually proposed to be absorbed by mistake. But you should get diplo message at last.

[Tharoz]

Thanks, but I had not engaged in diplomacy with Athens for at least 10 or more turns, so I could not have done that.

[Pocus]

Sorry about what happened. I really can't relate this event to anything in the code, this is weird. I would have said as Sarissofoi, an Absorb clause done in reverse.

[Tharoz]

Thanks for the response. Quite a few hours of games later and I've not seen the issue again, so looks like a one off.