Democracy is... not good to say the least

[AlanC9]

it isn't as before, before you could actually pick whatever robot you want to build and your own species wouldn't suddenly stop growing until all of your other species have reached the same population number, not to mention your other species would actually just grow on planets which they were present

its literally NOT the same as before

It's the same for me. Like I said, I wasn't ever big on dealing with that stuff in the first place.

If I'm playing the kind of game where I'm signing migration treaties, I'm not invested in what species mix ends up on any particular planet, or in the empire as a whole. They're all citizens anyway, right?

 

[Bearjuden]

Yeah, I hate losing my top scientists to elections every ten years. Would be nice if the game generated mostly new candidates each time, with one or two already-existing leaders at most.

Nah, you should have an election from amongst your governors, with other leaders rarely making it on and auto-generated ones mixed in with the governors. It makes sense that your governors should be in the running, they have the job closest to that of ruler anyway.

And governors should only lose a level or two when being elected, other leaders lose a few more, and auto-generated ones are the only ones that are always level 1.

 

[LeanneKaos]

I'll just quote my previous post as it addressed the same question.

Well, sort of. It addressed why that wasn't good enough for you, but didn't touch on how it was already close to what you described as a rationalization for a 'democratic' manual resettlement.

[QUOTE="Aed, post: 25045280, member: 829765"
You could do that for sure, although I'd argue for a strata specific decision though, otherwise we could end up with our specialists ditching their jobs to go be a miner somewhere else, which would be both frustrating to deal with and not make much sense logically either.[/quote]

The way priorities, stratum and the abstracted migration model work, that should be very unlikely to happen. You'd have to have enough migration push from one planet to create a declining pop, have the decline erase an active specialist, *and* not have any workers around to immediately promote up into the now-vacant job.

And you know, even in a democracy you can still turn the Resettlement policy to 'allowed.' It just annoys the Progressive (egalitarian) faction, which costs you a little bit of influence and a little happiness across your empire.