It is the core ecologist law and clearly an intended one.

Any civ having the ecologists in power gains this feature. Horatio starts being ecologist have access to it from turn 1.

With the FIDS penalty in place (base prod cut in half) it is not even too overpowered compared to others.

It may be seen as a balancing-issue but definitely not a bug.

ok -- thanks!! I totally missed that. and yet it was right there. I think I'd been playing for far too long last night!

mcganyol wrote:

It is the core ecologist law and clearly an intended one.

Any civ having the ecologists in power gains this feature. Horatio starts being ecologist have access to it from turn 1.

With the FIDS penalty in place (base prod cut in half) it is not even too overpowered compared to others.

It may be seen as a balancing-issue but definitely not a bug.

Actually that law is a bit tricky, all the non-gas planets have a similar sum of resources, so you may actually just get more harm than benefit in some circumstances.