Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Social Engineering: Difference between revisions

Seemingly a less preferable choice later game, it reveals its merits on higher levels when you need everything to cope with the chronic rioting of your bases. The police rating will allow you to hold off on building Hologram Theatres, a very expensive drone control option that can severely drag down a starting economy with maintenance. Balancing Police State with Green to cope with inefficency slows down your vertical growth considerably, making this a very poor peace-time tech (unless you've already grown most of your bases to max size). Without balancing this technology with Green, the negative efficiency may be severe enough to completely wreck the economy of even a mid-sized empire.