Having initially missed M@ni@c's post below, I will now give my thoughts.
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I think the directorates of Energy & Industry has become a rather hollow directorate. Now he no longer controls base production, and now the control of supply crawlers has been transferred to Terraformation & Colonization, the only things left to do for E&I is placing workers , hurrying some production from time to time and crying to build an energy bank, the only pure-economy building in the game which can't be covered by another directorate. Therefore I would like to propose to merge this directorate with SE, who only has to organize polls from time to time on SE and is in charge of psych and drones. Merged together the SE Director has a decent portfolio as valuable as the other directorates:
Worker placement
Social Engineering
Drone Control
Production Hurrying (you need to talk to labour unions to get this done, thus social affairs )
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I support this idea. This gives the SE director more to do, and resolves the Energy & Industry question. I'd also favor having the SE director conduct polls on energy rates, although this responsibility is constitutionally shared with Science and I believe now Base Production.
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The construction of energy banks can be left to the Director of Base Production, which could be recalled to the more important-sounding D of Economy. I know there are legitimate worries that D of Eco might abuse his directorate to build the facilities he wants in all bases, but with only energy banks under his control the danger is minimal so I believe...
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Although I prefer the name Director of Industry, I like this idea as well.
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Perhaps we could also merge the director of Foreign Affairs with Intelligence. When those are merged as well, I think every directorate has a decent and lasting portfolio. Now the importance of D of Intel would decline after the first hundred years.
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I think the Director of Intel has an important, continuous job -- looking at the infiltration reports and keeping an eye on what the other factions are doing. This isn't an issue early in the game, when we'll be intensively exploring, so there is something for that office to do at every stage of the game.
If E&I becomes obsolete later, we can always merge it with Foreign as you have said. However, that's a point to be taken up at that time, in my opinion. Certainly, in the early game, exploration is important enough to warrant its own Director.
Thoughts?
