You know like in skirmish.
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Also I was floating ridiculous amounts of credits so even losing 10 trillion a week I never went negative. thanks though.
No that was definitly the problem, it turns out population disaproval skyrockets after 20 billion. I tested this by making an all farm/VR planet to sell to an AI in a new game, so I could use the planet purely for trade. The fact I thought it was changing government types and wanting to move it back to democracy by having 100% approval only worstened the situation, I had 100% approval when I ALREADY had too many people. Then this went on until the senate voted my way. The popul
Ok this is extremely odd. I have a save before this happened and after, I essentialy colonized 15% of the galaxy and fully developed it these colonies, my civ was about 10x what the other AI's were, and this was on a harder setting. I really just wanted to make it a point to build up defenses before going to war with anyone. Anyway shortly after I stationed a ship in one of my 80 colonies (I know gamesettings were unfriendsly to the AI). I switched from imperial dicatorship to democracy