Fungus among us

[lbores]

I've suddenly seen resurgence of fungus around some of my bases. I assume that I've pissed Planet off somehow.

What did I do to annoy 'it'?
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[Aredhran]

In one word: Ecodamage.

Reduce the amount of minerals you're producing, change your social engineering to have a better planet rating, or build base facilities that reduce pollution (eg. Centauri Preserve, Tree Farm). Researching green techs helps as well.

For more details, check the datalinks.

Aredhran

[Lord Maxwell]

In the lower left corner of the base screen you see "Ecodamage: 0" in green if everything is right. (If things are heating up you can see "Ecodamage: 12" for example. The number is the chance that a tile inside the city radius will turn into fungus. (Expressed in percent.)

I generally feel that I can live with a chance in the single digits. But if it gets to 10+ and I can't do anything about it (in a war so I need the production, and no eco damage reducers available) then I station an empath rover in the base.

[lbores]

quote: Originally posted by Lord Maxwell on 02-19-2001 04:32 AM ... if it gets to 10+ and I can't do anything about it (in a war so I need the production, and no eco damage reducers available) then I station an empath rover in the base.

Which does what? Allows you to smite a MW. But does bupkis when your nice forest tile goes poof and is replaced by fungus. Right?

[Lord Maxwell]

Yep, it does nothing to prevent the fungus from blooming. But sometimes you have to sacrifice tiles to keep a build advantage for a few more vital turns. (Well, not against the AI, as you generally can make war against him with four rovers and win, but against a human opponent that extra gas-chopper might be vital to sink his transports.)