Racial Attributes

[Suicide Junkie]

Political savvy affects the amount of points 1you get when you have a trade alliance or higher.

In a trade alliance, you can normally get 20% of your allies production in trade. So for every mineral miner (800 minerals) he has (on a good value planet), you get about 160 minerals.

If you set political savvy to 50%, you only get half the normal amount.

[Purna]

So, let me see if I understand this...

If you have 5 roughly equal sized trading partners, and they have been your partners for 20 turns or more, then 50% of your mineral resources come from your own empire and 50% from trade.

Until your trade reaches this level, you will gain more from a point in mining aptitude than from a point in political savvy, right? (Assuming that is, that you are not constrained by organics or radioactives. Political savvy is a three-for-one deal, where two generally don't matter.)

That is, mining aptitude is a preferable expenditure until you go over the 120 threshold, at which point political savvy starts to look more appealing.

[Ed Kolis]

Cunning affects intelligence point generation.

[Suicide Junkie]

Political Savvy can be even better, because it affects research and intel from partners as well.

However, you are right in that mining aptitude will cover a lot of the benefits provided by P.S.

[TerranC]

But It depends on how many races wants to be friendly to you. Rather generate your own and take them at gunpoint.

[Krsqk]

I've made the mistake in a couple of PBW games of lowering Political Savvy down to 50%. Losing that much trade really hurts when everyone else gets 1.5x-2x what I do in trade--especially in a game like Paranoia.

[Phoenix-D]

Then why do you keep stealing my ships? Surely you don't have enough cash to pay for them

Phoenix-D