User Guide

ALPHA CENTAURI SCORE 8
Displays your current score. (See Scoring, p. 145.)
COMMUNICATIONS AND PROTOCOL =
Displays the Commlink menu (see Commlink, p. 23), which allows you to con-
tact other factions.
HALL OF FAME
This is a list of the best scoring games, by faction.
Corner Global Energy Market
This option only appears after you’ve discovered Sentient Econometrics. By
selecting this option, you may try to control Planet by cornering the global
energy market (See Winning the Game, p. 143).
Review Scenario Objectives
This option only appears if you are playing a scenario, and contains informa-
tion about your objectives and score status.
ECONOMICS
Cash flow has been a headache of civilized society since the Sumerians decid-
ed that building a city might be a neat idea. This will not change in the future.
The productivity of your faction depends largely on the output of the indi-
vidual bases (see Base Management: The Essentials, p. 58), but there are also
fundamental policy decisions that can affect how efficiently your faction
exploits the resources it gathers.
CONTROLLING SOCIETY
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