Wait, what? I'm already making almost 600 credits/turn, by the end of the colonization phase - just got my economy up and running and it's completely skyrocketed. On top of that, I'll get the tech to build the Mind Control Center in 4 turns. Are you saying that it's going to -double- my income?

I.. I really can't see anything competing with that.

This glitch has been around for eons, no idea why they've never either corrected the effect or changed the description. I guess it's just not a priority, but it's always seemed like kind of a major thing to me.

In TA, as I understand the current beta versions, "Concepts of Malice" does not appear in at least some tech trees, even after selecting an evil alignment. Meaning that at least some of the races can never get Mind Control Centers unless the enabling tech has been changed (in particular playing an evil race with the Drath tech tree I was unable to find Concepts of Malice as an available tech anywhere... although there are sooooo many other wonderful things). In fact, I am not certain _anyone_ can get MCC anymore in TA, perhaps someone can confirm or negate this?

Can't research them...we can still steal/buy them

Thank you stardock for your fast reply!

Sarcasm isn't really going to help. Actually probably nothing will because as someone pointed out this has been in the game for at least the two years that I've been playing it and in most likelihood far longer than that.

Every few months this gets brought up again by someone that doesn't know the history but that soon dies down for another few months until someone else brings it up again.

And yes what it does is to give you a 100% economic bonus. This bonus is additive (i.e. stacks) with all other economic bonuses such as economic resource mining.

The reason it has never been changed to do what it's documented to do is because there are far more people that would object to this being fixed then there are that complain that it's broken.

Also the code related to this is probably so far buried that no one really wants to touch it. The fact that it seems to actually make it more difficult to get planets to flip to you is evidence that there is some buried code related to this that does God knows what. Most people see the inability to flip planets as a fitting tradeoff for the unintended but now totally expected economic bonus.

The best advice I can give you is to go evil and build it early to get the 100% economic bonus and don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

I agree with changing the description. Just give a simple explanation for it like:

"Brain controlling devices implanted in our citizens central nervous system allow to rip them off financially without being asked. This can quite double our economic output.
Of course citizens of planets not under our rule will notice this harsh method and will be less encouraged to join our empire regardless of our influence in the sector. But - who cares? "

Yes, but if the description was fixed, no one new to the game would be confused and complain. And fixing a description is far less time consuming then any real code-fix, so finally getting around to it in the course of all the TA description updates should be on the todo-list.

Perhaps think of it this way...

It is a MIND CONTROL CENTER after all. And it is Evil of course. Perhaps it IS working as intended, just not on the subjects you think it is...oooooohhhhhhh, conspiracy is afoot! Question everything! Nefarious schemes are all around it!

The way it works is fine. They just need to fix the description.