Economic Victory

An Economic Victory is one of the Three Paths to Victory. To achieve an Economic Victory, a team must deposit 12 pollens/berries into their hive.

One advantage of running an Economic strategy is that progress is permanent. Berries can not be lost after being deposited. Before being deposited, however, berries can instead be spent to upgrade drones into speed-drones, warriors, or speed-warriors. In the event that too many berries are used in this fashion, the Economic Victory may become impossible.

Unlike a Snail Victory or Military Victory, an Economic Victory does not immediately end a game. A victory is achieved as the final bearbee/bumblebear/drone depositing nectar begins to come out of the hive. (Though a glitch in some versions of the game allowed a premature Economic Victory to be awarded as soon as any other nectar-depositing drone emerged from the same hive, so long as a drone had begun the process of depositing nectar into the last empty space)