Strange approval rating behavior

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In my last game I had two odd things happen regarding my approval rating:

1) In the late game I was running at something like 80% taxes with a 57% approval. I tweaked taxes up one click to get approval closer to 51%, but approval instantly dropped to 1%! I was able to duplicate it over and over - it always plummeted to 1%.

2) I had an election shortly thereafter (with approval at 57%), which I was quite shocked to lose! How do I lose an election with 57% approval? Is there a random die roll or something?

Anyone know what was going on with either of these?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1) In the late game I was running at something like 80% taxes with a 57% approval. I tweaked taxes up one click to get approval closer to 51%, but approval instantly dropped to 1%! I was able to duplicate it over and over - it always plummeted to 1%.


There are certain tax thresholds at which point the morale penalty rises significantly--81% is one of these. You need some *very* significant morale bonuses to make it feasible to use >80% taxes.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And about the population count problem ? Any way to manage >22.00 habitants planets without getting exponentially unrested ?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Any way to manage >22.00 habitants planets without getting exponentially unrested ?


Well, no..

I imagine if we had 22 billion people on Earth, the reality shows on TV would have to be REALLY good to keep us obliviously happy.