age of wonders planetfall always short energy

There are cases that the AI will replace multiple buildings of one type with another building thus causing a fluctuation. The fluctuations have to do with sector management.

I guess the question I am asking is whether this is what the devs intended - or was it an unintended side effect? Whether or not my hypothesis is true, I am not sure, and I don't have the knowhow to check it in the code. I came up with this hypothesis, when queueing a number of upgrades to Betharian power plants and ordinary power plants on one planet - and noticing a significant drop in my energy credits during the process. So your sectors could be upgrading power plants on several planets at once, causing the drop in power. The only possible explanation I can see for the issue is that buildings are actually disabled from collecting resources while they are being upgraded. While it usually rectifies itself, if it occurs at the wrong time (ie during a war) and your resources drop to zero, it could be game breaking.

The problem seems to be focused on energy credits, but I have had it happen to minerals as well. It has nothing to do with my fleet movement, because my fleets were already in motion before the sudden drop - and returning them to orbit around a space station did not solve my problem. It will last for a while, and then jump back up again, also seemingly for no reason. I have had energy fluctuate from +100 to -300 in less than a minute. I have noticed over the course of the last few games that energy credits tend to fluctuate wildly, especially in the mid to late game.

Age of wonders planetfall always short energy