The decisions you make in relation to Citizen Requests, Citizen Disputes, New Arrivals, and Policy Decisions will influence the way your planetary settlement develops. The choices you make can impact every element of settlement overview stats and settlement features, such as population, happiness, productivity, maintenance cost, and sentinel alert level. As a result it’s important that you make the right choices to ensure that your settlement continues to prosper, especially considering that some of the consequences of your choices aren’t always made clear. The below tables show all the known outcomes for settlement decisions of each type.
(1 of 3) You should never be afraid to turn down requests for glorious expeditions if you can’t afford them, or if you don’t want to lose population size in exchange for materials.
Adds a Blessed positive feature if you heed the warning, or directly contributes to happiness if you don’t require the feature, also increases settlement debt
Adds a Cursed negative feature if you don’t need the warning, also increases maintenance cost
There will be a number of Fiscal Opportunities presented in various forms, but all of them relate to whether or not you should tax a specific activity in the settlement. This can range from taxing the consumption of a currently untaxed ingredient, tax a new technological development, or tax a specific leisure activity. It doesn’t matter what the scenario is, since the choices and outcomes are always the same, detailed below.
This policy decision is similar to Fiscal Opportunities, in that you’ll have a range of scenarios where specific activities that your settlers have begun to engage in are brought to your attention. The main difference here is that instead of a choice between taxing or not taxing the activity, you’ll have to decide whether or not to ban it. The results of the choices are exactly the same.
In addition to Fiscal Opportunities and Market Regulation, you’ll have two other main types of decisions related to the Bettering the Settlement and Improving Our Lives categories. These will always have a positive outcome for the settlement and its settlers, although you will sometimes need to pay an initial one-off fee for the choice to take effect.
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