noob question

[zorbop]

Hey. Im a civ vet but a smac noob. I was playing the hive and seem to have accumulated 370 years of economic sanctions. What does this actually do?

[gwillybj]

it's gonna be a long 370 years

iirc, none of the other factions will do any of the yearly financial business with you during those 370 years... i.e., you will receive no EC (Energy Credits) from Commerce.
You are on your own for EC collection. The only EC you get will be those harvested by your workers or generated by your specialists.
(Obviously I expect to be corrected if I erred.)

[Flubber]

if you are treatied or pacted with other factions you can get trade income. This happens automatically and is calculated based on city size, your current econ rating and the number of economic techs you have. Late in the game the amounts can be quite significant.

When in sanctions, you get no trade income from anyone but no one else gets any from trade with you either. Since the Hive has an ECON minus you almost always get less trade income than your trade partners anyway so its not necessarily terrible to be in sanctions

Since 370 years is longer than the game will last, you will get no trade income in this game at all. There is no reason to be friends for trade so you can war with impunity.

Last point-- to get sanctions you must have committed some form of atrocity-- actually in your case, a lot of them. This along with mineral production will likely cause Planet to react with fungal blooms that destroy terraforming, mindworms that attack you and searises. So you might want to have a decent number of empath rovers around and get a few terraformers raising land.

[zorbop]

ok, i get it. thanks for the help

[Hydro]

Don't forget sea domes if you trigger huge sea level changes that creates a water world! It is an interesting way to conquer Chiron: drown everyone else.

Hydro

[Solver]

Also, if you tick the other civs off enough by your atrocities, eventually, instead of imposing additional sanctions, they will declare war on you.

But 370 years is nothing, I routinely go in excess of 1000 .