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Old 05-20-2012, 03:23 PM   #551
koland
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
Readjusting your politics will cost you the same % of both Bliss and Bucks, and how much depends on how far you move on the board. I think the lowest is 5% when I picked a party randomly (going from originally 0,0). 0,0 to either of the corners manually will cost you 10%, 50,50 to -50,-50 will cost you 20% and is the most efficient way to cut your Bliss down. It'll take about 7-9 cycles of back-and-forth to take you down to a little above Base Level Need with a little extra cushioning, IIRC.

I've been doing it right after levelling and upgrading all my assets to the new level to cut down on the Bucks lost (could also pay for an ally). There's a limit of once per cycle for political realignment.

At 50,50, you only get 1 system/hoard gift per cycle, but your Bucks from Assets is +75%. At -50,-50, you get 6 gifts per cycle, but Bucks from Assets is -75%. A neutral setting of 0,0 gets you 3 gifts per cycle from both system to transfer and for the hoard, but gives you +0% on the Assets, and it's what I had previously (I left it on +50,+50 from last time to build up Bucks overnight for a possible re-ally, or slowly work my way to Level 15, I haven't decided which yet).
Thanks. That would have helped a bit in lower levels, but now I find that I can manage bliss by going nuts on surging population (I have one free hold at -1.8M energy right now, so feel free to send any spare it's way).

I'm not up to the 75% level, but only get about one gift/cycle (and practically none of the supergifts) in my main freehold; the second is lower (but not negative) and gets two or three supergifts/cycle (thus the energy hole, as I finally used the 90K population gift - hopefully I have enough bliss supergifts, as well, to hold off money bleeds while I build up energy).

Now to decide - after reaching 20, should I try to build up enough allies to get another book (need to go from 21 to 29) or try for it via leveling up?
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