Author Topic: Yang SE: Green and Police State? (Read 1424 times)

VanV · « **on:** March 31, 2015, 03:42:31 am »

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but recently playing as Yang I noticed that, while in Police State, choosing Green did not increase my efficiency rating--i.e. the switch resulted in efficiency remaining at 0. I had been playing on whatever patch GOG sells; after encountering this I googled around to find a solution (to no avail) but I did find this forum. I tried in Yitzi's patch v3.4 and it seems to be there as well. Is this a bug? Am I misunderstanding how immunity to SE penalties works (definitely possible since I'm really only a casual user)? Also, my apologies if there's some obvious solution I missed already posted or if this is in the wrong place; this seems to be the only site with any useful Alpha Centauri related support left and this has been bugging me for days.

Mart · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:28:17 am »

Hi VanV,
It is how it is calculated.
Police state: -2
Green: +2
So total is: 0

Now if you switch to (just set it without actually making the change):
Frontier: 0
Green: +2
Total should be +2.

Is it like this in your game?

So immunity is applied after total, not that you get bonus after taking only negative effects only.

VanV · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:38:08 am »

Yes. It seems I misunderstood the nature of how immunity was calculated; thanks, Mart! That was driving me crazy.

Yitzi · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:47:51 am »

I do intend, in my next patch, to allow Impunity to apply to a social engineering effect category instead of model, in which case it would work much as you thought Immunity worked.