So I'm running an empire that's egalitarian/pacifist/xenophile, and i'm trying to embrace the materialist faction. The tooltip says that I need more than 20% support to do this, but despite having 22% of my population as materialists, the game seems to think that I don't have enough support. What am I missing?
A question about factions in Utopia
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% of population and % support are two different things. However what the support for the faction is, is a bit confusing because there are two numbers. The number that shows up at the top on the faction screen is the one that I would think matters, but there are also attraction %'s for each pop that are different.
Ah, ok, I see that now. It's sort of a weird system, really. I think that the attraction percentage might be taking into account the ethics of my synth slaves, but as they don't vote, they don't contribute to faction support. It's frustrating, because the materialist faction only has twenty members and 12% faction support, despite 22% of the population embracing materialism. The damn spiritualist faction has the same faction support, despite only being about 8% of the population! Even more frustrating is the fact that the egalitarian and xenophile factions dislike synth slavery and no longer grant me influence, but I can't actually do anything to change the policy until I can embrace the materialists!