I think the problem is you screen shot is to big... Just kidding. I beleve the problem is you have to many people and population presuse is killing your aproval. try removeing on of the farms.

I noticed odd behavior in this area as well.

First of all, what is the difference between approval (the value on the screen) and morale (the value you get when you hover the mouse over it)? They are nearly the same most of the time, but sometimes they differ a lot (like 20%). Also, the 30% morale from the multimedia center never actually occured in my game, no matter on which planet I tried it. Once approval (and morale) went up by 23%, once by 50%(that was with a 100% approval bonus on the tile) and so one. Never the full 30%. I guess there's some other factor involved, but I don't know which one.

While the tendencies of all the bonus and production values seem correct, the values themselves are never correct (well, correct with respect to what I expect them to be ) and that's a little frustrating, I have to say. I'd like a complete rundown of what factors into all this.

I'm also hoping for a quick mathematical answer on this one as well. Like your buildings only do X percent.. and thus, even with two your going to experience marginal returns.

But I would like one of the dev's to give it the quick look on their end and explain why the buildings in question don't actually do the percentage that they are listed as. Because if I had one that reduces the difficulties by 30% (and that's the first problem it's only stating it reduces it by 13.5% or so, and when you have two of them it goes to 27% reduction.)

It's just odd. And thanks governor Mormegil for the quick response! ( I figured it would be an odd one too.. with the included picture. hehe..) Especially since in my current game where this is taking place, the star system my custom race finds it's home star is known as Mormegil. It was like you sensed your baby. (Now if you could help me out with the actual math of this.)