Okay, so far enjoying the game. To the point:
I had just moved to the first office and hired a new staff member. I then began developing a new game engine. Unfortunately I can’t provide the specs of the engine (this happened a while ago before I registered here), but it had about 150-200 points to create. So, somewhere around 100 points left I began a research with my main character, so he was not contributing to the engine. Without thinking, I also sent the only hired staff member to training. There were 88 points left at this point, the last time I saw it.
Then suddenly the engine was done. It could not possibly have finished in the few seconds that went while I was distracted. Also, the main character was still doing research and the other guy was still in the training, so it was weird like that.
It was a bug I say! Unless there’s a feature in the game that makes unfinished but announcedly “ready” engines sucky.