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Approval rating in v.1.11

May 22, 2006 2:11:59 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Does anyone know what the effect of approval ratings (with the basic government, so ignoring government effects) is?

(In v1.0 apparently population growth stopped below 30% approval for example.)

Does it affect battle morale/outcomes? What about economy? Population growth?
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Reply #1 May 22, 2006 4:10:25 PM
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You need 100% morale to maximize your population growth. There are also production bonuses for high morale.
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Reply #2 May 22, 2006 4:39:49 PM
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100% morale gives a 100% boost to population growth. There is also a bonus at 75% but I am not sure what it is. I find it almost impossible to be at 100%, and it certainly seems impractical except on your first planet, so I generally just strive for the 75% bonus. Here's the question though, is this 75% overall or is each planet's pop growth determined by it's own morale %?
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Reply #3 May 22, 2006 4:47:06 PM
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Does the 100% bonus apply on a planet by planet basis, or does the whole Civ have to be at 100 % ?
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Reply #4 May 23, 2006 12:20:16 AM
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It's on a planet by planet basis.

Any planet with 100% approval gets 100% bonus to pop growth
Any planet with 75% approval gets 25% bonus to pop growth
Any planet under 30% approval gets -100% to pop growth
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Reply #5 May 23, 2006 12:39:38 AM
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The bonus is planet by planet. When the game starts lower the tax slider until approval is 100%. This will pay off big time later and only cost relatively few credits early. I suggest to try and keep it at 100% for 10 to 20 turns, depending on how much cash is found in anomalies.

There are times during the mid-game where it is again useful to lower the production and tax slider to get population growth up. If a player is chronically short of money, trade via freighters, selling techs, morale improvements and tech, better government are the remedies.
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Reply #6 May 23, 2006 1:56:15 AM
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Thanks Seems a pity though that approval *only* affects population growth. Seems a missed opportunity.
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Reply #7 May 23, 2006 9:14:00 AM
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It's not hard to achieve 100% approval, if you have access to morale resources. Once I got access to 2 of them on top of 1 research and 1 economic, needless to say the Genius/gifted? AI wer blown off the board.
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Reply #8 May 23, 2006 9:45:24 AM
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Don't forget that if your approval is too low you have to worry about having a full scale rebellion.
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Reply #9 May 23, 2006 12:11:49 PM
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Approval can also play a role when a player changes to a more advanced government (Republic on up). However, it is pass or fail, with 50% being the cut off. If the approval is under 50% empire wide, there will be production penalties. Also someone else mentioned the possibility of revolts if there are several planets below 50% even if the overall empire rating is well over 50%.

That said, the population boost is a big bonus. It means more money and more soldiers to load on transports, so it is extremely powerful for both peaceful players and conquest players.
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Reply #10 May 23, 2006 1:44:49 PM
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I find it almost impossible to be at 100%


Then you're not trying hard enough. I've maintained an 80% tax rate on 17B population worlds at 100% morale. With just one morale building.

Granted, I had an intrisic 200% morale ability. But even without it, that would only require 3 more morale buildings (though, given the number of Stock Markets on the planet of interest, probably only 2).

The only time I have a problem maintaining morale is if I go past 17B population. I find it gets pretty unmanageable at around 21B.
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