redboot

My drivers are up to date and I've gotten a handful of crashes around turns 200-250. Not sure why, but they were during play.

I believe the latest (only) opt-in patch resolves this problem. In any event, the Devs are aware of it and have pledged it will go away.

But farms also have a huge impact on population pressure by providing a cushion between food and the population eating it. By doing so, farms have a significant impact on approval and therefore on your ability to maintain the productivity bonus for high approval worlds. I've found that a farm or two can therefore have bigger impact on productivity than factories at the approval bonus margins.

Agreed. The man has talent (and more patience than I'll ever have.

I was just playing happily along when I noticed I had slipped well into negative income with no apparent effect. Is there supposed to be a consequence to negative income (like forced sales of improvements) that just hasn't been implemented yet?

Does the game automatically upgrade any planet improvements before giving you an "idle colony" prompt? Is that a feature or a bug? Is there any way I can get it to stop doing that?