Zak and his drones on Transcend

[Kirov]

Zak has 1 drone extra per 4 citizens; however, on Transcend difficulty each worker after the first one is automatically a drone. Does that mean that Zak's penalty is irrelevant on Transcend?

I reacll vaguley some old discussion here about 'superdrones', harder that 'typical' to get rid of. For instance, if you have a base size 2 and from the calculation comes that it should have 3 drones, then one of them is such a 'superdrone' ('Uberdrone'). However, no facts were sure and no conclusion was reached.

Anyone knows sth about it?

[Chaos Theory]

Zak cannot have more drones from his penalty that a faction would normally have content citizens. This means that on Transcend, Zak can only get 1 extra drone, ever.

Superdrones only result from bureaucracy as far as I can remember. You cannot have more bureaucracy drones at a base than its population.

[livid imp]

IIRC, Drones are really just visual represention of a psych score. A standard drone is the equivelent of a -2 psych, and a standard talent is +2. Superdrones appear when too much of this negative psych builds up.

There was a fairly detailed thread on this a few months back but I'll be damned if the poly search tool can find anything
If I do find it, I'll post a link.

[jtsisyoda]

Superdrones are sometimes -4 psych in the representation livid imp describes, and sometimes -2 psych. If you use Social Engineering psych to quell superdrones, it takes 4 psych to quell a superdrone. However, police, facilities, and SP's like LV or PTS can quell just as many superdrones as they would regular drones.