Artifacts questions
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:48 am
First time I pay any attention to artifacts. And it's not clear to me how they work. I don't see anything about them in the Galactopedia. In-game, the tooltip that shows when the mouse is on one puts emphasis on how to move them, suggesting that their bonuses are local. But in the manual, the sole paragraph about them ends with a sentence saying that they can even provide "a bonus of some kind for your entire empire".
All the tooltips for the artifacts present in my current game have the mention "Bonuses To Owner", like this one:
Which I find ambiguous. Does "Bonus To Owner" mean a bonus to the empire that owns it, or to the colony, station or base where it's located? Or can it mean both? Even the bonuses themselves in the above example are ambiguous, as to whether they're local or empire-wide. For instance, "+10% Scenery" suggest to me a local bonus. But "+5% War Weariness Reduction" seems to be empire-wide. Yet, they're all in the category "Bonuses To Owner".
Would I be right in assuming that some artifacts have one or more local effects, some have one or more empire-wide effects, and some can have both types?
All the tooltips for the artifacts present in my current game have the mention "Bonuses To Owner", like this one:
- Harp of Karidas.png (194.81 KiB) Viewed 527 times
Which I find ambiguous. Does "Bonus To Owner" mean a bonus to the empire that owns it, or to the colony, station or base where it's located? Or can it mean both? Even the bonuses themselves in the above example are ambiguous, as to whether they're local or empire-wide. For instance, "+10% Scenery" suggest to me a local bonus. But "+5% War Weariness Reduction" seems to be empire-wide. Yet, they're all in the category "Bonuses To Owner".
Would I be right in assuming that some artifacts have one or more local effects, some have one or more empire-wide effects, and some can have both types?