User Guide

STOCKPILE ENERGY

If you don’t particularly need any new units or facilities from a base, but don’t

want to let its production capacity go to waste (or if your faction is strapped

for cash) you can order your base to Stockpile Energy. This causes the base to

immediately sell off every excess mineral it produces in exchange for energy

credits, which are then deposited in your energy reserves.

BASE CONTROL SCREEN

The Base Control Screen is one of the main nerve centers of your society.

Second only to the main map, this is where you’ll do most of the actual “work”

of playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

Information on each base, its citizens, resources, and production may be found

on the Base Control Screen. There are several different ways to access this screen.

• L on the base you want to look at.

• Press e when the terrain square containing the base is highlighted or

when a unit in the base is active.

• Double L on any base name on the Base Operations Status Screen (accessed

via your HQ Menu, p. 110).

COLONIZING PLANET

CHAPTER 4

Governor

Nutrient Tanks

Commerce Index

Resource Collection

Readout

Data Readout

Rename Base

Queue

Build Orders

Forces

Supported

Garrison

Base Facilities

Multi-Function Display

(MFD)

Energy Allocation

Readout

Close Screen