First let me start by saying the organizational structure of this forum and the developer feedback are awesome. Please keep up the good work!

Now for what you entered the thread for.

Let me set the stage: Single star, me and one other empire remaining, he is my ally. I have agreed to all the diplomacy options except for Intel. He won't share that. Of course, I had to turn on him because I don't like sharing my star with anyone. As I am wreaking havoc on his worlds I notice 2 things. One is the instant recapture bug involving culture. The second is my research seem to have stopped progressing. I can't figure out why for a minute or so till I happen upon the relics tab. The current research I am doing involves a relic. I notive I only have 2 relics instead of the 3 I did have. The research on one of the remaining relics is no longer progressing. I right-click cancel the research and suddenly it greys out. It would seem that I lost access to the relic but the game did not cancel research on it for me, it just froze it and as a result, ALL my research.

What I think should have happened was it should have been canceled. This would have allowed all my queued (sp) research to continue.

If this isn't a bug I aplogize.

Thanks in advance for looking into this matter, I think I might have a save somewhere that you can use to recreate the problem, just don't know where to send it.

-Dave

Edit: I will be trying some other things to break the research tree, please check back with this thread in a bit... I should have the results of my other test momentarily.