Economic Sanctions

[Soyweiser]

When you get economic sanctions for nerve stapling your drones, is the timer reset? Or is the timer added. (So If I staple 6 riots in a turn, do I get sanctions for 10 turns, or 60).

And I wondered, it is possible for nerve stapling to fail. But the same turn, I can simply try again. So, what does that do?

[Yitzi]

I think that the timer is added each time, though I'm not certain.

And the fact that you can simply try again in the same turn was probably an oversight.

[Soyweiser]

That really puts a downside on my Hive 'staple them all!' tactic. A well, not like the AI didn't already hate me.

[Geo]

Yeah.

[Yitzi]

That really puts a downside on my Hive 'staple them all!' tactic. A well, not like the AI didn't already hate me.

Yeah,  is probably the best at "staple them all", but still needs to be careful about it.

[Soyweiser]

I found it worked well during the initial expansion phase. There is a moment where I need to make a choice, either, staple, or produce rec commons, or produce less formers, and more scouts.

Stomping on the  's seemed the best bet.

However it meant no commerce ever.

(playing on a large map with slow research).

[Yitzi]

I found it worked well during the initial expansion phase. There is a moment where I need to make a choice, either, staple, or produce rec commons, or produce less formers, and more scouts.

Stomping on the  's seemed the best bet.

However it meant no commerce ever.

(playing on a large map with slow research).

Of course,  isn't really so good at commerce anyway...

[Soyweiser]

Would you look at that:


The amount of turns you are still under sanction are listed on the energy screen (F3).

Was this introduced in a patch? Or is this base game functionality?

[Yitzi]

I didn't introduce it, and I don't think Scient or Kyrub do such things, so I presume it's base game functionality.