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hey guys, i can probly figure this one out by trial and error...just dont wanna waste the time when i can ask.....whats up with Allegiance on planets? what affects them.....what things increase and decrease it? any info would be great, thanks!
Allegiance depends on the distance to your Homeworld (HW). Your HW has an Allegiance of 100%, colonies 1 jump away 90%, 2 jumps away 80% and so on, down to 25%.
Allegiance directly influences the tax income and the resource (crystal and mineral) income of this planet. So a colony with 50% allegiance produces only 50% of the possible tax and resource incomes.
Allegiance can be raised by culture which is spread by the according buildings (Temple of Communion for Advent, Broadcast Center for TEC and Media Hub for Vasari). Thus allegiance can be raised by 10%, up to 110% for your HW, 100% for colonies 1 jump away and so on.
Advent have some specific research to increase allegiance further (I believe +35% max).
Enemy culture can drain your allegiance if it spreads to your colonies. Own capital ships can push back enemy culture in the wells where they are located. If the allegiance of a colony drops to 0 it is lost.
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hmm..my problem is....my allegiance at my Home world keeps rising and falling.....and i notice it falls when my fleet leave the planet....problem is...i dont know why it keeps draining and what i can build to make it rise...i only have the home world, no colonies and both gravity wells next to my homeworld are owned by the enemy....could it be their culture pushing in?
Definately enemy culture is the reason for your problem! You will see that the phase lanes change colour to the according player colour as culture spreads from one colony over phase lanes to the surrounding planets.
The following things you can do to push back enemy culture:
1. build your own culture centers (you can build more than one, the effects stack)
2. keep your Caps at the planet (as they push back enemy culture)
3. attack the nearby enemy colonies and destroy them (or at least destroy the culture centers)
Advent technologies can increase maximum alleigance by 10%, but in Entrenchment, this can be much higher.
Spread rates of culture centres stack linearly - that is, each culture center adds the same amount of spread rate as all the others. Culture spread rate is split evenly across the phase lanes connected to the gravity well they are built in (so planets with one phase lane will generally have faster culture spread rate compared to those with many phase lanes).
Capital ships repel culture only when they are in non-hostile gravity wells - they are 50% effective in neutral wells and fully effective in friendly wells. The rate that they repel culture also increases as they gain levels (0.25 at level 1 up to 0.75 at level 10).
what would be the best strategy for placing Broadcast centers?
Do you want them stationed in a gravity well half way between the homeworld and the outer edge of your Empire? Or better yet on the very edge of your Empire so it can broadcast through the phaselanes that connect to enemy held gravitywells?
This always depends on the map and your situation. Usually you want to place as few as possible to get the job done. You are correct in that the front lines are a good place to put them.
Culture spreads faster when it goes through fewer phase lanes, so a chock-point area will spread culture to another planet far faster. However, areas with multiple phase lanes are also a good choice, because they will affect more planets. I'd recommend finding a 'central' planet that extends to many of your planets for culture centers.
Just be wary that placing culture centres in grav wells with lots of phase lanes causes the spread rate on each individual phase lane to be very slow (at 5 phase lanes, you're spreading at 2 culture/sec with an unupgraded culture centres).
If I get any broadcast centers early in the game, I tend to put them in a central location within my empire. There, they do more to improve the allegiance (and credit/mineral production). Later in the game, I shift to putting them at the edges of my empire. They will protect from enemy culture (and culture bonuses), and I can use them to push my culture out - lowering the enemie's allegiance.
Of course, usually I tend to play Economy early and Attack later, so my use of culture centers really just fits the rest of my behavior. 
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