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TIBERIUM INFESTATION:

This is the tiberium_takeover_count variable.

Each Harvester job, and Tib Research job gives -1 to the infest variable.

The harvest policies have no explicit effect on this. They just change the number of jobs.

Each deposit gives a plus to the infest variable. These range from 1 for fields, up to 6 for the Glaciers. This value is determined by the harvesting capacity of the jobs the districts for these deposits would provide under Sustainable Harvest.

The Blue Zone District is currently the only district that affects this, giving -1 per district.

This variable is then checked, and if it is above a certain value, it will do the infestation. Replace Blue Zone deposits with Yellow Zone, replace Yellow deposits with Red for Habitable Tib worlds.

On uninhabitable, Fields can turn into their respective Glacier colour, with green Fields and Glaciers being able to upgrade to the blue counterpart.

Except for the Glaciers, of which only 1 can happen, this will run 3 times, infesting the deposit if there is enough in the variable. This means that Tiberium will grow exponentially, but there is a limit of its expansion per iteration. I may raise this cap in the future.

Infestation can also go the other way, removing tiberium from the planet, mostly representing harvesting operations being too large for the growth of the tib to support.

TIBERIUM DEPLETION:

Worlds can be depleted, giving a modifier that basically makes it impossible to extract minerals from the planet, as well as makes it less productive for food.

This is the tiberium_total_count variable

Each time the infest event runs, 1 is added to this variable. It then also adds to this variable based on what deposit is being added, with 1 being for Fields and Yellow Zones, 2 for the Red Zone, and 3 each for the Glaciers.

The final point when the depletion sets in is based on planet size, with larger planets being exponentially higher than smaller ones.

The two ends of this are size 10 and 25. Size 10 is only allowed double the planet size, while 25 is allowed triple. The sizes between these are plotted on a logarithmic curve, as well as anything above 25 only having 3x.

POP INFESTATION:

Pops on worlds with tiberium have a chance to be infected, influenced by your Safety Policy, Use Policy, and Sonic Protection.

There are 3 levels of infection. Infection cycles happen at the same time as growth cycles. During each Infection cycle, pops have a chance to die instead of progressing in their... evolution, again influenced by your Safety Policy, Use Policy, and Sonic Protection.

SONIC PROTECTION:

Sonic protection on a planet doubles the required growth points for tiberium to grow. It also reduces the max deposits allowed to grow by 1.

CONSOLE COMMANDS:

Sometimes, you just wanna trigger something to see ♥♥♥♥ go down. Well, now you can.

event tiberium.0 starts the asteroid event chain. (Planet you want targeted must be selected)

debugtooltip allows you to see the value of the variables on the planet. (Hover over the planet you want to see. Doing this in the outliner works too)

event tiberium_infest.1 is the infest event code. Run it on your tib worlds to increase (or decrease, as the case may be) the infestation level.(Planet you want targeted must be selected)

event tiberium.9 is the non tib world infest code.(Planet you want targeted must be selected)