I'm playing on an excessive map with currently 124 planets. My overall approval rating is 43, so many of my planets are at 100% approval. But many of the conquered planets are stuck at 0% approval. On the diplomatic screen, as usual, I'm first in everything except I'm last on approval.
How can one boost the approval of a planet really stuck on 0% approval?
I don't understand how the arithmetic works. Here are the details from one planet I conquered from the Drengins:
When you mouse over the approval rating, you get a display with the details. At the top it says that Approval = -5.4 / 15.2 (population icon). Why is it apparently dividing the approval rating by the population? Does this mean approval will rise as population goes up? (I don't think so.)
The next line says: Morale = -5.4 (with no sign of dividing by population?) ("sad"). And the planet's approval is listed at 0% on the planet screen.
The other details for this planet:
Harmony Crystals +5
Approval Relic (5) +160%
Easy to Please +4 (benevolent ideology perk)
Noble +50% (not sure what this is)
Galaxy United Celebration +10%
Alien Cultural Trash -20% (what is this?)
Colony Capital +3
Slave Pit +1
Large Empire Penalty (124) -24.8 (is there any way to mod this away?)
Zero G Arena (2) +10
This causes the maximum -25% penalties to growth, raw production and influence growth, plus low resistance.
Okay, how does the arithmetic work? That's +23 +160% +50% + 10% bonuses (which I calculate as 60.72) -24.8 = 35.92 -20% = 28.74. As far as I can tell, the planet should be at 100% approval, not 0%. How in heck does the game take those numbers and get to a total of -5.4???
I'd really like answers to all of these questions from some of the more experienced users.