AFAIK the 'native ability' modifier shown on the tooltip is not the actual amount of your ability, but rather the amount of bonus your ability gives on that planet.

IIRC there is a massive morale hit at 22b, no matter what you do. If you want to try and get beyond that point, all you can do is keep on adding morale boosters. There is no easy way.

This is why I think the morale system in GCII is one of the most idiotic ones I've ever seen. Everything else is great, and what I don't like I can mod, but it needs to be straitforward.
If the sector says it give 60% bonus, it should give 60% to morale at ALL levels, not 34% at 12B and 14% at 20B.

see that is just absurd to me... no population no matter how "entertained" could stand for that kind of universal tax rate, what good is the best entertainment in the universe if I have no money with which to buy it?!

Maybe it's like the Romans and it's being given out for free. People would think, "Well, at least our taxes pay for this." If we had enough room in football stadiums, a lot of people would put up with quite higher taxes for season tickets.

LOL!    I would *love* to see that fight. THey need colloseums in galciv2.

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It's a game. It works in that game. That's enough for me.

Speaking of absurdity: don't you think the whole computer gaming is absurd? Sitting several hours per day in a front of some flat surface watching there how some strange colors change?

BR, Iztok

I think the devs should be recognized for their effort to limit 100B worlds. However, there is always room for improvement. Making morale change exponetially after 22b is counterintuitive. Morale should be linked to tax rate and influence just like "real life". If you see some one more happy and prosperous than you most people want to emulate their life style. It simply makes more "game sense" to link food with population and have larger populations require more farms not morale buildings. While it did "fix" the original problem it creates a new one ... (i.e. 11b population worlds with 80% tax rates). Maybe Frogboy sould look into this further

Well, that's why the words "a lot of" are included in the sentence. Even a necromancy after two months can't quite expunge them from the original text

Super Hiver ability ought to change the way that your moral/population relationship works. Different effects could be expected depending on exactly what you mean by a "hive," but societal communication ought to be much better in virtually every scenario. The Thalan, specifically, seem to be working for what they deem to be a "higher cause." This should inspire greater tolerance of the hardships caused by overpopulation in Super Hiver societies.

Super breeder also ought to change the population/morale relationship. If your culture and physiology promote having more children to such a degree that it makes a noticeable difference in your overall population growth than it seems unlikely that your citizenry will become as easily depressed by overpopulation. They are more likely to be happy that they have many children, and believe that everyone else is also having children and thus being happy. Even if living conditions are oppressive the idea that most other people are happy can often promote happiness in oneself.

On higher taxes, consider: in a futuristic society money goes a lot farther. Look at current economic theory. In the dark ages, the idea was that in order for one person to gain something someone else had to lose something. Now we have this crazy (but so far successful) idea that it is possible for EVERYONE to make a profit. No one has to lose in modern economic theory -- the only question is how much you are winning by. In GalCiv 2 we appear to be considering a futuristic society that presumably has developed better methods for using the resources available to it, and renewable energy to boot. Note that during the hints when you're loading a game the developers go out of their way to mention that the Galactic Resources (yellow cylinders, blue cubes) are special and unusual because they are NOT easily renewable.

What this boils down to is that a tax rate of 80% nowadays means poverty for the people subjected to it. An 80% tax rate in the future setting of GalCivII means that the citizens can only afford to build personal skyscrapers, not private spaceships. Aren't they so deprived?

They're aliens. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to have some communal, socialist-like alien race. Actually, I wouldn't expect such a race to need any entertainment at all, even at 100% tax.

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To push things further: if they're aliens, why the he.. are they actually using money? And from what source population in our game gets money, when not a single building in our game requires workers?

BR, Iztok

I think they just ruined the whole game. Each update fixes 1 thing and screwes up 6 other things. The only answer I get is to mod my game. Then I tell em iI play metaverse, they go oh well. Then why pay for a game I'd just make my own.