What is "Decay" - it is not mentioned in the FAQ Walkthrough or Strategy Guide and I can not find anything about it in game?

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The Strategy Guide and the FAQ Walkthrough Guide make no mention of "decay" but one of the commander ships for the Plant Race...

 

TL;DR : "The Solar Wind" has an area affect "-50% Decay to all planets in Range".... what dose this actually mean?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I’m not certain but I think this is probably when a colony sends stats to a core world it loses some of the stats “decay” the further the planet is from the core world the more it loses. This ship seems to counteract this. Again I haven’t played them or I forgot I played them.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Very little in the game is actually explained, which isn't a good thing.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Yea, decay is something g in the GalCiv games that should probsbly be explained better for newcomers. It’s the amount of a given Resource you will lose due to the distance between where it is produced and where it will end up.  First introduced in GalCiv II.