right, there is something like hidden fractional part (like BladeSabre said)
The_Guest is close, but not exactly right
When you right click an action in select-action screen you can see the alignment points of each action, it can be 0, Life(1), Life(2), Tech(1), Tech(2)
So each action can contribute up to 2 points. But it actually takes 3 points to see a change. So you have to succesful perform at least 2 Tech actions to actually change world alignment.
The exception from this rule are special alignemnent-change actions, which directly add 1 or 2 to world alignment.
<EDIT> to clarify it a bit more: there is *hidden* alignment value, which you don't see. The *visible* value is equl to *hidden* value divided by number 3.
So if you beam-down a jeep and probe (each of them is Tech(1) ), the actual hidden value will be 2. The visible value is still 0.
well ill explain what just happened to me which puts this in doubt.
i tried to put down a 100% spideroid at alignment 8 and it failed. the guy before me put down an eye. so the eye changed the alignment right? - not according to what you said as the eye's alignment is life(1) and cant change the alignment all by itself.. Well maybe someone put down a life creature before which was life(2) meaning only one thing like an eye was needed to decrease the alignment. wrong because every move previous to that had been a tech move - the eye was the first life move in the game. after my spideroid failed the 3rd player used jetpack. and hey presto after all 3 turns the alignment was still 8.
can you explain this to me. because after being killed by about 4 drones, 3 probes, 6 hoverships and a firefox, opponent's commander surviving spider,tentacle,sabre 3 times etc.etc. ..... i think this is the most stupid thing ive seen in this game.
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