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The All Lab Approach

A quick Question for the Masses

from GalCiv2 Forums
With an All Lab approach, if I spend my racial points to maximize research, does this in turn make the labs MORE of a money sink, or is the extra percentage research "free". So at the beginning of the game economy-wise, when you are running in the red, would the labs be more cost efficient, or less, or neither?
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Craig, who are you playing as? The cost in xeno Ethics is directly related to your "moral compass" at that point in the game, that is, a "good" race that decides to be evil pays 10k, neutral 2.5k, and 0 for good; or flip all that for an "evil" race. A "neutral" moral compass pays 2500 to go either direction.

I wasn't aware of a difference. It just seems I always end up paying 10K to go evil and 2K for neutral. I never noticed a difference between races. I haven't played them all so I'll watch for that. Also, I've been playing DL lately so it could be something that changed in DA. Everyone sort of assumes that we're all talking about DA here, but some of us are still playing the original game.

For an all-labs strategy, being evil is the most sensible choice, followed in the distance by neutral. Good is never a good choice (ironically enough).

For *any* strategy being evil is the most sensible choice. The only reason I consider neutral is because I really like the instant terraforming, and they nerfed it in DA so basically, there's no reason to play anything but evil. That's lame.

As far as the alignment imbalance, the easy way to fix it is to give each one similar bonus levels in some area. Maybe good gets a 100% bonus in social production and 50% in research or something. Why they didn't do something like that from the get-go is a bit of a mystery to me. Having two of three playstyle options totally worthless is a real waste.

Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wasn't aware of a difference. It just seems I always end up paying 10K to go evil and 2K for neutral
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Yeah, next time you research xeno ethics you'll see a little slider. The farther to the right = more evil. So if you are say, the Torians, you need lots of evil ethical choices before you finish research or you'll pay money. But if you are the Yor or Korath, you shouldnt have to pay anything to be evil.

Good is awesome for smaller galaxies where you're lucky to have five planets.
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I would still say that neutral or evil is better. Insta-terraforming those 5 planets and not having to waste your social production doing it is probably a bigger help than the waiver on the colony costs. And 100% econ with evil will EASILY make up for the waiver of the 5 colonies also.
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