Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: gwillybj on March 28, 2014, 02:55:27 PM

Title: Do extra Police units reduce Psych and increase Drones?
Post by: gwillybj on March 28, 2014, 02:55:27 PM

I found it necessary to install Police units in many of my bases. My Police rating allows one per base. If by circumstance I build two in a base, does this negatively impact Psych and/or Drones, or is the extra unit's Police effect ignored and it serves as just another standard unit. Do I need to reduce the number of Police units somehow, or can I leave the extra there?


Dones, Drones, whatever :D

Title: Re: Do extra Police units reduce Psych and increase Drones?
Post by: JarlWolf on March 28, 2014, 06:45:11 PM

I personally found no issues arise with psych or citizen happiness when I put more troops in my cities, but that may just be because I am fairly militaristic player to begin with, and wouldn't know what is like with more peaceful strategies...

Title: Re: Do extra Police units reduce Psych and increase Drones?
Post by: Yitzi on March 28, 2014, 07:12:13 PM

There is no downside to keeping more Police units in your bases than your Police rating allows for use as police.  The only sort-of exception is that in the unpatched version the virtual police unit from the self-aware colony (which does not have non-lethal methods) will take precedence over units that do have non-lethal methods; my patch (starting in the same version that added drone control flags, IIRC) fixes this bug.

Title: Re: Do extra Police units reduce Psych and increase Drones?
Post by: gwillybj on March 28, 2014, 08:11:50 PM

Thank you. I can rest easy knowing things are quiet and under control in my bases.