Balancing Race Construction

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PvK:
As soon as you get in a serious war and lose a system or two full of planets, though, you will find out why it is an advantage, as all of your planets go to rioting,

By the time your planets get to rioting, it doesn't make a differenace anyway, you are beat. It may accelerate the end a bit, but it won't change the result.

But even at that it is so easy to prevent this from happening. An urban pac center, some warships in orbit, even a couple dozen troops on each planet(my personal fav) will all keep your people quite jubilant right up to the point when the enemy comes and glasses them into nothingness. And a 40% empire wide[EDIT:Oops, this should be 20%, but that's still pretty darn good] bonus to resource production is nothing to snif at. That and a 200 planet empire against a 200 planet empire of emotionless people and you won't have to worry about them glassing your planets and making your people unhappy, cause you will be glassing theirs.

Of course with your mod, troops don't make the pop happy, so perhaps there may be more of a use for the emotionless trait. But in the stock game I just dont' see it. Other than maybe for role play reasons. But if you use it, you have to work harder at the economics.

Geoschmo

[ July 25, 2002, 00:30: Message edited by: geoschmo ]