The Weather Paradigm - is it any good?

[Rymdolov]

What do you think of this Secret Project? Is it worth seriously going for? The Human Genome or the Virtual World would be my first choices for most factions, but if you don't have a good chance at getting either of those? What do you think?

[Buster's Uncle]

Love the WP and always go for it first.  When you're a builder and always go wild for expansion early in the game, those  doubletime terraforming  bonuses are hard to beat.

[Yitzi]

Early boreholes, faster terraforming for essentially the entire game...it's quite good.  Not one of the best, but nowhere near the bottom either.

[Lord Avalon]

Hell, yes!  I usually go for it second, after HGP.  I will add condensers to the aforementioned faster terraforming and boreholes.  Flat terrain (often) + farm + condensor + crawl food means you can put a worker on a borehole, e.g.  Also a condenser adds moisture to immediately surrounding terrain - useful in a very dry area.

[Buster's Uncle]

It's just a very, very useful SP.

Avalon, I didn't welcome you before.  I now do.  We're very glad to have you at AC2.

[Petek]

The WP creates turn advantage for the entire game. You get your improvements up-and-running quicker than the other guy.

[Flygon]

It's an amazing wonder. Ties in perfectly with ICS!

[JarlWolf]

Not only that, for the more devious commander, the WP is not only a great economic tool that can speed up terraforming considerably and give access to great technology, it can severely sabotage your enemy too. 

How? Take your little former, and start lowering terrain until it's water. You can cut off enemy cities this way, and then you can just continually bombard them (if you don't want to/can't capture them) and other such things. It's very effective, and it can debilitate your enemy. There is also other ways to sabotage your enemy as well with that friendly little former.

[Buster's Uncle]

...And the advantage of faster road building as a military asset is hard to overstate.  The WP pays off big pretty quickly, and throughout the game...

[Yitzi]

...And the advantage of faster road building as a military asset is hard to overstate.  The WP pays off big pretty quickly, and throughout the game...

Roads, or (once you research AMA) bunkers.

[Buster's Uncle]

Bunkers are great; roads are very much better.

[Yitzi]

True, but the two together are better yet, since bunkers mean you don't have to make a hasty attack to avoid standing there and risking mega collateral damage.

[Buster's Uncle]

In general, I'd trade all the bunkers in the world for a decent internal road system, is all.

[Yitzi]

Yeah, internal roads are essential...but they're not as time-sensitive, so doing it fast isn't as valuable (though saving former time is always good).

[Buster's Uncle]

Time sensitive?  The road is there when you need it or it isn't.  You spend twice as much time building roads or half that time improving squares the bases work(also at twice the speed with WP).  The road gets the former there three times faster to build the bunker when you need it, IF the road is there when you need it.  Everything is time sensitive.