User Guide

CONTROLLING SOCIETY
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categories (see below). At the start of the game only the default values
(Frontier, Simple, Survival, None) are available, and you have no choices to
make. As your technology progresses, your options expand and you must
choose how to continue.
Each choice’s effects on your social factors are displayed in the form of icons.
Green icons are positive modifiers, red icons are negative modifiers.
There are several sub-windows on the Society Window. The one in the upper
right displays the meaning of each category icon, and your current rating in
each category. Also, if you L on any one category, your social choices arrange
themselves so that that category is optimized—“maxed out.” If you do this,
make sure you look carefully at the other ratings, to make sure you haven’t
created a dangerous deficit in some other category.
The window in the lower left simply provides a detailed breakdown of each
choice, as you pass your cursor over that category. This window may be used
by players who cannot read the color coding in the main window.
The window on the right is a detailed breakdown of the effects of your cur-
rent choices in every category.
Political
Choices
Economic
Choices
Value
Choices
Society
Types
How your society
choices affect
different aspects
of your faction
Society effects
resulting from your
faction characteristics
Explanation of the
effects of your
society choices
Energy Allocation
Green icons indicate aspects improved by a choice
Red icons are aspects that worsen