User Guide

COLONIZING PLANET
CHAPTER 4
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ASSIGNING CITIZENS TO WORK
Your Resource Screen is used to control your base’s resource production.
If you L on any square currently under production, you reassign that
square’s worker to become a Specialist (see Citizens, p. 61). That square is
immediately taken out of production.
If you L on any square not currently in production, the governor selects a
Worker or Talent to begin working on that square. The governor selects a
square to abandon in favor of the new square.
If you want to reassign a Worker from one specific square to another, L on
the square you want to take out of production (to temporarily create a
Specialist), then L on the new square to reassign that Worker to it. You can
also drag and drop Workers from the population bar onto empty squares.
Say, for example, that you suspect the Hive is getting ready to launch an
invasion of your territory. This reassignment function allows you to order a
crucial border base to live off nutrient tanks for a few turns while your
Workers maximize mineral production to complete a Perimeter Defense
without dipping into energy reserves.
If you L directly on the base square itself, the governor selects assignments
for all available workers, with a view towards (a) meeting the base’s current
resource needs first, and (b) maximizing production (according to the gov-
ernor’s current priorities, if any).
SUPPORT MFD
This screen shows the location of all the base’s units not located in the base
itself. The Support Screen displays the entire world map, with the base appear-
ing as a bright dot, and supported units as smaller dots.
PSYCH MFD
This screen displays a graphic readout of the citizens in the base and the effect
of various factors on their attitude.