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CENTAURI PRESERVE
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- Reduces effect of industry on Planet's ecology
- Any alien lifeforms you breed at this
base gain a +1 lifecycle bonus
This facility is one of your main weapons in the fight against ecological disaster ( as with the Biology Lab, the bonus to lifecycle is a pleasant extra, but dosen't come near to justifying the cost of the facility). Unless you're taking strict measures to control the size of your bases, you will need this facility eventually. The only question is when to build it.
There are basically two approaches to take...the "corrective"
and the "preventative". The corrective approach builds a preserve whenever ecological
disruption actually appears at a base, while the preventative tries to have one
up and running before any ecological disruption appears. The only problem with
the preventative stategy is that you'll sometimes spend time and resources building
a preserve for bases that will never be large enough to need them. The corrective
approach can work just fine, if you observe a couple of basic precautions. First,
don't procrastinate. If ecological damage appears, kill it - don't tell yourself
that "it's only a couple of points, so I can put it off". With this kind of thinking,
ecological dfamage sneaks up on you, and before you know it you have a global
problem. The second precaution is to watch out for danger zones, in the form of
specific secret projects, which are liable to trigger a massive increase in ecological
disruption. These include the Cloning Vats, the
Bulk Transmitter and ( worst of all ) the Singularity
Inductor. If you start work on any of these projects, it's best to take preventative
action and build Centauri Preserves in any bases that you suspect may be anywhere
near the ecological red zone.
(There are viable strategies that involve encouraging ecological disruption to provoke global warming. If you're playing that strategy, naturally you don't want any Centauri Preserves.)
*A base must have a Centauri Preserve before it can build a Temple
of Planet.