100 years into the game, I conquered an AI homeworld. They still had 'sprawling slums'.

[hersenmail]

Do sprawling slums get refreshed when you conquer them?

If not, this is so ridiculously concerning. It's another example to throw in the 'single player is un-playable' category. I mean, the sprawling slum clearing decision has got to be the lowest-hanging good decision fruit a player can make in the early game, and the AI doesn't do this?

 

[JOD]

Isn't there an event that adds slums onto planets? I know I've seen it before, though I'm not sure what the exact triggers are.

 

[Pyoro]

Yes, it can happen if there's a lot of unemployment (or could at least, does it still happen?).

But usually when I conquer AI planets there's tiles to clear up there so I wouldn't be surprised if they (at least sometimes) didn't do this. Tough to tell; two capitals I conquered in this campaign were cleaned up (arguably "a bit" trade crazy, but overall not as awful as before the beta patches).

 

[hersenmail]

Okay wasn't aware of the events. Maybe it was that.