Mr Dean

Thanks Mumblefratz. I edited my post to show .08 & .09. Also, I was just posting it for information purposes. I wasn't complaining. I was just sharing my experiment data.

Well, here in the United States they are called The Secret Service and Television.

I did some experimentation on how approval rating affects the growth rate, and here is what I found. My home planet's population of 8 billion increased by the following when: My approval rating at 100% = population increased by .15b My approval rating between 76% and 99% = population increased by .08b to .09b My approval rating between 41% and 75% = population increased by .06b to .07b My approval rating between 20% and 40% = population stayed the same My approv

Ok, I just lowered the sound card acceleration by one notch and it fixed the problem. It no longer skips or glitches.

Yep, the sound was fine until I installed the update patch. Now, the introduction glitches like a scratched cd.

I was looking at the high scores for characters on the Metaverse. I noticed that the more evil characters have higher scores. The_Storyteller has the highest scrore for the 'VERY EVIL' alignment. His score is 1,360,275. Allianz von K has the highest score for the 'VERY GOOD' alignment. His score is 353,735. Since I am new to this game, does this mean I should always make 'VERY EVIL' decisions while playing this game? (i.e. when colonizing a planet it will

Thank you everyone for the various different strategies and outlooks on approval rating. I'm wondering if it would possible to implement both of your strategies. Start the game off by playing 100% approval until your population is very large and then going down to 41% later in the game in order to amass a large attack fleet to annihilate your neighbors? I'm totally new, as you can tell. But do you think this strategy will work. I'm about to try it and I'll post my results he

Need some experienced expert advice here. I need to know how low can you go with your approval rating. The game manual mentions if it goes below 30% then your population will stop growing and even possibly decrease. Does this mean I can go down to 31% approval rating with no consequences?