Chapter 5: Controlling
Your Empire
City Harmony
As mentioned earlier, one sure way to stem the tide of an irate population
is to make them happy with some city improvements. What follows is a list
of base improvements that will assist in keeping your city from the unproductive
activity of rioting.
* Children's creche - Increases
efficiency and negates negative morale modifiers for military units
* Hologram theatre - Decreases drones by two
* Nanohospital - Increases psych at city by 25 percent and reduced drones
by one
* Paradise garden - Offers two extra talents at city
* Punishment sphere - Eliminates drones and talents at city
* Recreation commons - Reduces number of drones by two
* Research hospital - Increase psych by 25 percent
* Tree farm - Increases psych by 50 percent
Lastly, there are a few secret
projects that can help in keeping your city or cities subdued and happy.
* Clinical immortality - Gives
one extra talent at every base.
* The Human Genome Project - Gives one extra talent at every base.
* The longevity vaccine - Two less drones at every base if your economics
are set at planned. One less drone if set at simple.
* The planetary transit system - One less drone at all bases under population
level 3.
* The telepathic matrix - Drones never riot at any of your bases.
Social Engineering
Social engineering is an often overlooked, yet extremely powerful tool
that enhances the performance of your empire. As new technologies are
uncovered, new elements will appear on the Social Engineering screen.
These elements break down into the following four categories:
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first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility
of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing
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1. Politics
2. Economics
3. Values
4. Future society
Let's now take a look at each
category in detail and see how you can best put it to work for you. Keep
in mind that at the early stages of the game, there may be nothing for
you to do here until you research the appropriate technologies that uncover
new social engineering models. Technologies that open the gateway to these
enhancements can be found at the end of this chapter.
Next: Politics, Economics, Values, and more
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