The neat thing about the Spartans is with the right combinations of Secret Projects they can run the Free Market with basically impunity later in the game.
Run Police State/Free Market/Knowledge/Cybernetic and pick up the Asthetic Virtues, Network Backbone either the Pholus Mutagen (which as I recall gives a undocumented +1 Planet) and/or control the Manifold Nexus and for good measure the Hunter-Seeker Algorithm and your final Social Engineering results look like this:
Efficiency +1
Morale +2
Planet 0
Probe -2
Growth 0
Police -1
Industry -1
Research +4
Economy +2
Support +2
That gives you a way of not only having a great economy, but absurdly good research and you can fight well under it too. Cybernetic shows up quite a bit before Eudomania as I recall, and you can time the Network Backbone to be completed the same moment you pick up Cybernetic with Digital Sentience, with either horded crawlers or switching from another Project.
With the Cloning Vats (+2 Support) you can also maintain a vast army without having to pay the extra cost/slot for Clean Reactors. That goes a long way towards mitigating your Industry penalty which there's nothing you can really do about anyway until Eudomania, when the game is almost over.
Your -2 Probe, if you have the HSA, doesn't impair you a bit as all that does is make you more vulnerable to Probe teams, it doesn't inhibit your offensive probe actions.
Run Police State/Free Market/Knowledge/Cybernetic and pick up the Asthetic Virtues, Network Backbone either the Pholus Mutagen (which as I recall gives a undocumented +1 Planet) and/or control the Manifold Nexus and for good measure the Hunter-Seeker Algorithm and your final Social Engineering results look like this:
Efficiency +1
Morale +2
Planet 0
Probe -2
Growth 0
Police -1
Industry -1
Research +4
Economy +2
Support +2
That gives you a way of not only having a great economy, but absurdly good research and you can fight well under it too. Cybernetic shows up quite a bit before Eudomania as I recall, and you can time the Network Backbone to be completed the same moment you pick up Cybernetic with Digital Sentience, with either horded crawlers or switching from another Project.
With the Cloning Vats (+2 Support) you can also maintain a vast army without having to pay the extra cost/slot for Clean Reactors. That goes a long way towards mitigating your Industry penalty which there's nothing you can really do about anyway until Eudomania, when the game is almost over.
Your -2 Probe, if you have the HSA, doesn't impair you a bit as all that does is make you more vulnerable to Probe teams, it doesn't inhibit your offensive probe actions.
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