"Bad Girls Have All The Fun," or An Analysis of Alignment

[Madine]

I think Friedrich's analysis is good.

You can trade for exclusive techs though.

Clearly the underlying advantage of evil is all those bonuses you get from picking the bottom option.

The advantages of good and neutral are much harder to quantify and verify. Diplomacy for instance, has many different variables.

[Harry Seldon]

I spent my last game choosing neutral, occasionally good, and evil if the bonus was good. Towards the end of the game, I kept getting the soldier serum event that gives a bonus to your soldiering with the corporate scandal for probably a grand total of seven events. Each time I chose the evil option. Then, I get the plague event and choose the good option because I don't want to see my civ destroyed (-650 mil?!? WTF?) and I get skinned with good, serene music and all. After beating the game, my alignment shows as Pure Good. What gives?

[bonscott]

You can check your current alignment in the stats tab of your empire screen (where you set ecomomics and such).

[Harry Seldon]

I know that but how can I be branded pure good after making seven evil choices in a row then one good choice?

[Garth Vader]

That's odd, I was going to try being good in my current game, so I picked like 2 good and some neutral.

Then comes a killer evil pick, so I did that, and my alignment sinks down to 42. WTF!

[Brazuca]

Not all choices give the same bonus if you do good things for a small price and take a single evil path for a great bonus the evil points will be bigger than the good points, if you do lot of evil things for a small bonus and do a single good thing for a great price, the good bonus pays the evil things.

[Harry Seldon]

I guess that makes sense. I was really pushing for an evil alignment in my last game, though.

[Felch]

Why did you make the good choice then?

Was it one of those disease events or something?

[Harry Seldon]

Yes. The evil choice was -650 mil pop, +685 BC. I had a boatload in reserve cash and 650 million people... I wouldn't have had anyone left.