Do I need a security station on non-residential domes?

[Arthemus]

Let's say I have three connected domes. One is residential, another is industrial, and the last one is shops and entertaiment. Can renegades show up on the non-residential domes? Or just on the dome with the houses?

[SkiRich]

Homeless can be renegades as well.

[Arthemus]

Oh didn't think of that. But then, if I make sure everyone has a home, can I skip security on the non-residential domes?

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by André:

Oh didn't think of that. But then, if I make sure everyone has a home, can I skip security on the non-residential domes?

Unless you are playing an option to make renegades, or a mystery that creates renegades, if you just keep people happier than 50% you wont get renegades so no security needed.
If you want to add some flavor though ?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1596642938

[Arthemus]

I'm already using that. And I turned on the option to randomly make renegades because on this playthrough I'm playing as a soviet colony.
I'm just trying to figure out if I really need security on every dome or not because those security towers require quite a bit of staff.

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by André:

I'm already using that. And I turned on the option to randomly make renegades because on this playthrough I'm playing as a soviet colony.
I'm just trying to figure out if I really need security on every dome or not because those security towers require quite a bit of staff.

Well in that case yes you will need a security station in each dome. They are dome specific. You only need one security personnel in each shift to get the full benefit. More is unnecessary.

[Arthemus]

Just in case anyone reads this thread: After testing for several hours, you only need security stations on the residential domes, as long as you have a way to keep the population growth in check.

[bjorkwolf]

I found I didn't really need security stations at all. Yeah, at times I had renegades (maybe 40 at one point), but all they really did for the most part was steal a couple of food resources or such from time to time. I thought it was more useful to use the space and personnel for a comfort that might keep them from happening to begin with, and help other colonists.

[HappyTortoise]

You only need a security station if you have rebel yell enabled with other very difficult settings. Even then only up until the early midgame. when you're still in small domes and a bad event could send you into a death spiral - like a renegade blowing up your only rocket.

At past the mid game and with rebel yell you will have hundreds of renegades no matter what you do and events happening every 5 minutes real time. This is annoying because security stations don't seem to do much to prevent it at that point. You can also afford to replace buildings instantly but the annoyance is having to micromanage the shifts like setting up medical centre to work overnight or setting crops on the farm.

Without rebel yell you will have only single digit renegades at most. Usually 0. In both scenario the security station is quite useless.