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HubCat posted 04-03-99 11:18 AM ET
I've recently completed a game on the Thinker level and noticed on multiple cities I had an efficiency penalty. From patch 2.0, my understanding was the Hive was immune to this. Are there situations where the Hive is not completely immune? Thank you.
Mongoose posted 04-03-99 12:16 PM ET
HubCat - I believe you have misinterpreted " immunity". This does NOT mean that the Hive suffers no energy loss from inefficiency. What it does mean is that the Hive accrues no negative efficiency modifiers due to SE choices. The Hive will then most often have a basic efficieny rating of 0, which still entails rather significant energy loss. I say most often because I think the change was made to permit the joint use of Police State and Planned Economy (generally regarded to be philosophical naturals for the Hive) without crippling the Hive economy. Whether this change went too far is an issue for another time and place.
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Author	Topic: Human Hive - Immune to Efficiency?
HubCat	posted 04-03-99 11:18 AM ET I've recently completed a game on the Thinker level and noticed on multiple cities I had an efficiency penalty. From patch 2.0, my understanding was the Hive was immune to this. Are there situations where the Hive is not completely immune? Thank you.
Mongoose	posted 04-03-99 12:16 PM ET HubCat - I believe you have misinterpreted " immunity". This does NOT mean that the Hive suffers no energy loss from inefficiency. What it does mean is that the Hive accrues no negative efficiency modifiers due to SE choices. The Hive will then most often have a basic efficieny rating of 0, which still entails rather significant energy loss. I say most often because I think the change was made to permit the joint use of Police State and Planned Economy (generally regarded to be philosophical naturals for the Hive) without crippling the Hive economy. Whether this change went too far is an issue for another time and place.