[eia] Manipulaiton question

[MICHAEL P GORMAN <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, the manipulation modifier to the political points occurs before the PSA modification from position on the political point track, the first occuring in 8.4 and the second in 8.6.  So you can't simply add your economic manipulation modifier to your PSA drift modifier for a net result, you have to manipulate, then drift.  This would mean that at high political point totals you could lose the benefit of manipulationa s it would move you off the chart and then still have the full drift rate, not a reduced rate.  

So someone at 15 points with a +2 manipulation would still drop three spaces as the manipulation would try to take them off the chart so they can't gain that benefit. Also, someone at the top of the normal track couldn't manipulate into dominant as they would manipulate into an increased drift rate and get kicked back down, they'd have to score points to get into dominant and then manipulate to stay there.

Is this how everyone else reads the manipulation modifier?

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