[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="6" id="1904238"]Generally what folks do is to try and keep approval high early in the game to get your population up on your colonies but once that's done they increase taxes which lowers approval to maximize income.[/quote] Seems kind of like cheating. Obviously it's how the game works, but it just doesn't seem like it should work that way. Thanks for the info.
[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="2" id="1903579"]...as a start you need to be very careful about building any farms on your homeplanet or more than one farm on any colony.[/quote] I decommissioned the farm I had on my homeplanet and it fixed the problem. Sure, 4.2 billion people had to starve to death...but the planet's approval rating went from 45% to 75% in one turn and then quickly rose to about 92% over the next couple of turns. Sadly, about 30 turns later the dem
I've been playing the demo for a couple of days, and I've run into a problem that is only getting progressively worse. I have two colonies which have 80 to 90% approval, but my homeworld is going down the drain - my approval rating is 45% now. When I hover the mouse it says the following approval breakdown... -48% from Population -35% from Taxes +15% from Buildings +13% from Native Ability The population one is the one that keeps getting worse as my populatio
Thank you. Edit: Is there some sort of lag with the forum index? It appears to have taken a while for my post to appear.
With the disappointment that is Spore I began looking for something similar but better (I apologize if this is considered an insult to say I find this to be similar to Spore's Space Stage). In the Spore forum someone mentioned this game so I looked it up. From what I've seen so far in pictures and videos, I can't believe it has existed for 2 years without my knowledge. I'm thinking about asking for this game and the expansions for my birthday later this month and I had a few questions. <
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