When is the design fee charged?

[sloanjh]

I think there might be a bug in the design fee.

I just did a 10% modified design of a BB.  The 100% fee is ~7.5M; the 10% fee is ~750K.  When I built the first instance of the design (right after doing a "not now" in the design study finished popup), my cash dropped by ~$7.5M.

In addition, I'm pretty sure I've seen cash drops equal to the design fee on the turn after the design is started.  So I see two potential issues here:

1)  There's a bug in the amount charged; I'm getting hit with the full design cost when the ship is laid down, rather than the 10% cost.
2)  There's a double-charge bug:  the cost of the design fee is subtracted in the first turn of the study, then again (at full cost) when the first ship is laid down.

I suspect that I may have found a logic hole by not building the ship straight from the design study dialog.  Instead I like to wait until I'm in the turn so I can see what my income looks like.

Has anyone else seen anything similar to this, or understand exactly when cash is supposed to be deducted for design studies.

[rimbecano]

I've actually noticed design fees *not* being charged when I begin the design study.

[sloanjh]

Sept 14, 2019 17:41:54 GMT -6 rimbecano said:

I've actually noticed design fees *not* being charged when I begin the design study.

I've noticed the same thing.  I think (but am not certain) that I've seen them get charged after you advance by one month after beginning the design study.  Or are you saying you don't seem them being charged then either?

[EDIT] Now I'm certain I've seen it (getting charged when advancing one month):  I just designed a CL that had ~2.5M design cost, and the ~2.5M evaporated from my cash on the turn advance.

[EDIT2] AHA!!!!  I just started a design study, *then* put 9 ships into refit.  The design fee was subtracted from the total *before* I advanced time by a month.  So I think this part is a refresh bug - the cash is being subtracted when you start the study, but the number displayed in the dialog is not getting refreshed.