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'''Social Engineering''' is equivalent to what the Civilization games refer to as ''form of government''. However, Alpha Centauri's system is the most flexible of any Civ game (until Civilization IV): you can not only choose the form of government, but fine-tune its economy, values, and how it embraces advanced technology. | '''Social Engineering''' is equivalent to what the Civilization games refer to as ''form of government''. However, Alpha Centauri's system is the most flexible of any Civ game (until Civilization IV): you can not only choose the form of government, but fine-tune its economy, values, and how it embraces advanced technology. | ||
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+2 Support, +2 Police, -2 Efficiency (except Yang) | +2 Support, +2 Police, -2 Efficiency (except Yang) | ||
This is Yang's best option because he incurs no penalty from it, and he starts with the option to boot. | This is Yang's best option because he incurs no penalty from it, and he starts with the option to boot. Everybody else is likely to suffer great inefficiency, so for them, Police State ''must'' either be balanced with other Social Engineering choices with positive Efficiency modifiers (e.g., Green) or with being a faction with bonus efficiency (e.g., Deirdre). | ||
Seemingly a less preferable choice, it reveals its merits on higher levels when you need everything to cope with the chronic rioting of your bases. The support rating in addition with the police rating leads to a free recreation common in every base (and you keep in most cases the bonus minerals) and you can build recreation commons on the top. Balancing it with green to cope with inefficency slows down your vertical growth, which has it advantages concerning the amount of drones resulting of growth. | |||
Seemingly a less preferable choice | |||
This is the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/The Human Hive|Hive's]] preferred choice, and the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/The Peacekeeping Forces|Peacekeepers']] aversion. | This is the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/The Human Hive|Hive's]] preferred choice, and the [[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/The Peacekeeping Forces|Peacekeepers']] aversion. | ||
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Even without the Cloning Vats, by this point in the game, Clean Reactors can help to compensate for the support malus. | Even without the Cloning Vats, by this point in the game, Clean Reactors can help to compensate for the support malus. | ||
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