Approval issue?

[I can't stop drinking oiI]

I was wondering about approval ratings, one of my cities has been at "rebellion" for a while now, although it has an 80% approval rating, whereas my lowest (50%) is content and my capital is at unhappy with 76%

Is this a bug or are there hidden factors affecting approval?

EDIT: If it's meant to be the same as endless space then this must be a bug, I have cities now on 98% with content and/or rebellion and ones on 20% with content!

[Vieux Chat]

Yep. The approval at the momen tis a bit.. hectic.
Devs are aware of it :)

[qn7o]

By the way: any idea about how we are supposed to keep the approval rate up ?

[BlackRainbow]

Like in Endless Space, there are buildings that either increase approval (the pink thumbs-up) or reduce maluses (e.g., "-20% expansion disapproval").
I think the first one you can get is on the lower part of the first technological era, and the second and third one are in the third technological era.

[qn7o]

Thanks a lot BlackRainbow, I'll look into it !

[Necroscourge]

Also, some anomolies on the game map when streets are placed on them raise approval.

[I can't stop drinking oiI]

Originally posted by Anto:

By the way: any idea about how we are supposed to keep the approval rate up ?

Tier 3 research gives lots of buildings that give high approval (+60 from the market I think!) and reduces expansion dissaproval, until you get there I'd do what necro suggests and look for anomalies on the map (+10 average) but the best thing until then is to not spam boroughs, if there are no anomolies on an area you want choose a city placement that gives you the best benefits so that you don't have to place as many boroughs, next thing is to think about borough upgrades, placing 4 (not 6 as it says :P) around a borough or centre grants +10 approval which will negate the -10 it usually gives, not much but it allows you to place 1 extra borough for the same approval modifier.

I think you can level boroughs up more to actually give positive approval at this stage, but I am not sure how, I did it with one city which ended up with >100 approval even with more than 10 boroughs (also had tier 3 upgrades and 2 anomolies however), but I am not sure if A: you need 4 level 2 boroughs around it or B: you need just one level 2 borough and 6 others etc.