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This is only good for one thing: bringing in lots of money. This is best if your faction already has an economy bonus; it will help the benefits balance against what you lose: control of both your people and Planet. Forget about balancing out the -5 Police; reversing or minimizing the -3 Planet is doable. The penalty isn't too bad if you know what you're doing. It is if you don't. | This is only good for one thing: bringing in lots of money. This is best if your faction already has an economy bonus; it will help the benefits balance against what you lose: control of both your people and Planet. Forget about balancing out the -5 Police; reversing or minimizing the -3 Planet is doable. The penalty isn't too bad if you know what you're doing. It is if you don't. | ||
Advanced players may want to switch to Free Market as early as possible by researching Industrial Economics at the first opportunity. The base tile of each base is free from early game restrictions, and not much energy is being produced elsewhere because the focus is on creating Colony Pods, therefore the energy output of each base can often be doubled, or nearly so. This strategy is not universally accepted, however. | Advanced players may want to switch to Free Market as early as possible by researching Industrial Economics at the first opportunity. The base tile of each base is free from early game restrictions, and not much energy is being produced elsewhere because the focus is on creating Colony Pods, therefore the energy output of each base can often be doubled, or nearly so. This strategy is not universally accepted, however. Especially on transcendent level the lack of police can initially cripple your empire, hence you need the 2-citizen-workforce ... because on transcendent level, every citizen except the first is a drone. Which is fun. | ||
This is the preferred choice of the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Morgan Industries|Morganites]], and is the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Gaia's Stepdaughters|Gaians']] aversion. | This is the preferred choice of the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Morgan Industries|Morganites]], and is the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Gaia's Stepdaughters|Gaians']] aversion. | ||
