Actually, it does give the +10%.  The bug is a deeper Beta UI flaw:

• 1. "+x% Production" modifiers are not displayed anywhere.
• 2. "Raw Research" and "Raw Wealth" tooltip scores are not really "raw", they already include all of your "+x% Production" bonuses.

"+x% Production", e.g. from approval bonus, Economic Ring, and colonization special events, all work the same way.  They stack linearly with each other, so let Pb denote (1 + sum of all of your Production % bonuses).  Then next turn, all 3 of your axes (mp, rp, bc) are (for now) quietly scaled by Pb.  This is done before it displays your "raw research" and "raw wealth" tooltips, so it's already baked into the "raw" scores.

Proof: Just pick any world and multiply it out.  Your "raw research" = (pop) * (rp%) * (Pb), where the Pb sum uses last turn's approval bonus and Economic Rings, and this turn's everything else.  Similarly for "raw wealth" and mp (although it doesn't display "raw manufacturing").

Example: My 2 new colonies both have +50% from 100% approval and +10% from 1 Economic Ring within range.

• One of them also had the Worms or Food colonization event that gave +10 Benevolent, -10% food, +30% production.  It's getting +90% = 1.9x its population in total output.  Kind of fun to see a brand-new colony with 2.5 bp generating 10.00 mp in its turn of colonization.  Things get built!
• The other one is getting only the 1.6x for +60%.

From the dev streams in late July/early Aug, they plan to add random non-colonization events that invoke ideological choices (e.g. survey events?).  So just work around the lack of planets for now.  (i.e. make galaxies with many worlds, or test other stuff)

Other ideology bugs/inconsistencies:

1.  Ideological points get reset to 0

• I'm playing an all-Benevolent game, i.e. I always take the Benevolent colonization events.  So my ideology points earned are just 10k/0/0, where k = the number of colonies I have.  But those points are vanishing.
• After my 2nd colony (= 3 planets total), I had 20/0/0, and I unlocked tier 1 Benevolence for 20 pts.  I still had 20/0/0.
• After my 5th colony (= 6 planets total), I had 50/0/0, and I unlocked tier 2 Mindfulness for 45 pts.  This reset my ideology points to 0/0/0, and the costs still went up (to 50 for the other tier 2 choice, and 98 for tier 3).  That means I need ten more planets to go from tier 2 to tier 3 Empathy.
• Since then, I've colonized 2 more (= 8 planets total), and now have 20/0/0 pts again.

Alpha 0.31 Pragmatism tree never deducted any points earned.  It seems redundant to increase the costs and take points away.

2.  Mindfulness (Benevolence, tier 2) gives the Approval +25% bonus to all of your planets, not just "Your first 3 worlds".

I'd pay 50/0/0 for that!  canwekeepthisplz

3.  All colony events use the terminology "benevolent" for Benevolent, "pragmatic" for Pragmatic, but "merciless" for Malevolent.

Hey you gota keep up perigrine23! Your threads being hijacked! Lol.

Regarding sensors. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. I'm still thinking about. I wasn't fond of the 15 sensor range that GalCiv 2 had. I'm very happy to go play with large sensor ranges right now.

If I recall correctly, in GalCiv 2, the main reason why the sensor range got a limit was because a person's computer couldn't handle seeing so much of the map at once. It was never limited because of balance reasons (I don't recall ever hearing anything about it).

Peregrine23 said:

"After Iridium Center is built, Iridium Store becomes available again. If this is not a feature, it should be, it’s cool. This also happens with Iridium world, so your Center upgrades to a World, the Store upgrades to a Center, and you can build another Store. Same effect with colonial bank to banking center."

I believe, I know what causes this. The one-per-planet improvements have a Preclusions-tag, which prevents former and later versions (if available) from showing up independently in the build-list (at least, if I understand the purpose of the tag correctly). This tag isn't set right for some of those improvements. I'll take a look through the ImprovementDefs.xml again, and see, if I can find them all.

PS: The quote-button no longer works.

I love the name, "iridium world!" its SO benevolent.

Harolden Gaul says to lord kona, want to buy some souvenir weapons from iridium world?

Lord kona says yes and then shots him with the weapon and eats him.

They are dumb enough to bo have that happen, luckily I like the iridium so I'll help* defend them.

DARCA

This is because the improvement has this tag

<Scope>Global</Scope>

for both the income and influence bonus.