1.6 Need help with approval.

I started a 1.6 game the other day with some weird racial choices to try something different. The problem is I didn't pick any morale choices. I've done this before and made do with lower taxes but this new capital is driving me nuts. Do they think a 40% morale boost makes up for the horrendous raise they added to it's food supply?

How am I supposed to keep good approval early on with 16b people on a planet? I wouldn't even go near that kind of population till late game normally but now I'm pretty much forced to deal with it somehow.

What do other people do? Just say screw it and not care if approval goes into the red? I know it doesn't matter as much if you haven't changed governments but I like my people to be happy. I feel like some sort of dictator if those numbers stop being green.

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When morale goes below 40%, population stops growing, so morale sort of regulates itself. Low morale can be bad with certain random events, but otherwise it's not really problem, especially if you eventually fix it. And hopefully you have enough planets with high morale that your homeworld does not drag down your total approval below 55% so you can still win elections.

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They really need to change it from approval to "contentment" or some such so I can sleep better at night. I feel like I'm gaming the system in an exploitive way when I let approval drop so much. If I wanted to game the system I'd pick Krynn in the first place and stack morale bonus.

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Even without the morale racial bonuses, you can get a higher morale by building the entertainment type buildings.. You will get a morale boost too, when you just research the right yellow techs. And of course if yuou can find a nice morale resource to mine you'll be ok.

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