Social Engineering

[Chaos Theory]

If you have that many bases, consider eliminating your HQ - found a base, rush a HQ, and raze the base. Now all your bases count as 16 tiles from your HQ. They each suffer the following fractional loss to inefficiency:

2 / (4 + effic)

[Impaler[WrG]]

Interesting Idea Chaos Theory. I never considerd that the No HQ calculation could actualy improve your overall Efficiency.

I most games I try to get the HQ in a nice central position at the heart of my Empire and will move it around as needed to maitain that central position.

But you were playing on a very large map with a very spread out empire I see how you could get a net incresses in output by lacking a HQ.

By the way has anyone ever though it rather silly that Distance from the HQ determines how much Energy is wasted in the 22nd Century

Its obviously one of the many hold overs from Civ2 ware it makes sense for most of the game upto say the idustrial age, Communism I belive would eliminate the distance calculation and use a rather high fixed number to calculate efficiency in all bases just like the no HQ rule in SMAC. Interesting huuu

[Dis]

I guess that was supposed to be some sort of deterrance to building huge sprawling empires.

But you still make more research and energy by building more cities. It's not nearly as bad as corruption in civ3 .

Well I finished my other game. I was running fundamentalism/green/power. Power wasn't as bad as I thought it was. I was the believers btw. It was an interesting game. I just wish I got more points for a conquest victory .

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
By the way has anyone ever though it rather silly that Distance from the HQ determines how much Energy is wasted in the 22nd Century

Yup. I would imagine the the size of the society would have a greater impact on energy loss through Inefficiency than distance from the HQ.

Its obviously one of the many hold overs from Civ2 ware it makes sense for most of the game upto say the idustrial age, Communism I belive would eliminate the distance calculation and use a rather high fixed number to calculate efficiency in all bases just like the no HQ rule in SMAC. Interesting huuu

It'd be neat if some technology removed distance-from-HQ related Inefficiency. Planetary Networks would work, but its too early - maybe Planetary Economics, or Sentient Econometrics?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by livid imp

Has this actually been confirmed beyond the text in the SE screen?

Not by me, it's hearsay. It looks like a design decision to cap all of the discounts at 50%.