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Maybe I'm missing something but Diplomats seem to work inconsistently in regards to subs carrying specialists. In two different games I launched specialists in subs with zero drillers. Both were within the range of the Diplomat. In the first game when the sub was intercepted by my opponent the captive specialists immediately returned to my nearest outpost. in the second game the captive specialists headed to the opponent's nearest outpost instead. Is there something here I'm missing? Maybe I just don't understand the rules correctly - but it seems a little odd.

The Diplomat's effect will only take action if:
1. The Diplomat is at an Outpost and NOT in a sub
2. The enemy outpost where the specialist is must be within the range of the Diplomat, NOT the prisoner sub, which can move out of the range of the Diplomat if the enemy's nearest outpost is that far away.
There is also a possibility that the first game was before an update which happened last year- before that update, the Diplomat would immediately release a specialist from a prisoner sub, but now the prisoner sub must arrive at an enemy outpost to be released.
before and after screenshots would help clear it up.