Ethics convergence isn't working properly?

[Diezy]

If the Ethics Convergence only takes Diverged Pops in account, it means that w/o -100%, divergence will never be fixed again! :O

It looks pretty weird, though guess the reasoning behind it is pretty sound. I can't decide if it's very silly buggy code or a cheeky Streissand Effect. (though technically that'd be, the harder you try to make pops have ethics converge, the more stubborn the pops get)

 

[Mauer]

I have -70% divergence and they do change to my ethos, but it takes a while - seems much slower than the other way around.

 

[The Founder]

Plop down colonist with correct ethos, build droids (or the level of robots that gets ethos) to fill up the planet with "correct" ethos people before you get "undesirables".
Manage growth by deleting robots.
This way you can make sure that you always will have a dominance of the correct ethos, and new pops will more likely be born "right"

I bit gamy perhaps

Well it is not cheap either. Costs 150 Energy per Robot "Placeholder".
One thing to consider is that even T1 Robots seem to copy local ethos, when they should not (one of those on again, off again bugs).

If the Ethics Convergence only takes Diverged Pops in account, it means that w/o -100%, divergence will never be fixed again! :O

I can not parse that sentence.
Of course Ethics Convergence only affects diverged pops. That is like wondering that a Doctor only helps people that are (feeling) ill.

 

[GC13]

I tried to fight back the ED and got it significantly in the negative (-20% or even -30%). I expected these pesky xenophobes and spiritualists to eventually switch to the true way of materialistic individualism, yet after more than 20 years of negative ED majority of the pops with wrong ethics are still there.

The listed ethics divergence is ten times the annual chance to change a single step, so at -30% ethics divergence you're still expecting more than half of your Pops to have their ethics completely unchanged. Those that do change might not change the particular ethic you're most interested in.

 

[Diezy]

I was interpreting it as a more indifferent script, that didn't care if pops were divergent or not.

So If ED is positive, the pop will get rolled something random that's not of your governments.

If it's negative it gets rolled towards one of your own, and if already has the same ones, it also rolls, just, nothing appears to happen, because nothing changes.

So absolutely every pop went though that process. It doesn't care if it's same ethics or not, rather, if the ED is Positive or Negative

 

[evilon]

Well it is not cheap either. Costs 150 Energy per Robot "Placeholder".
One thing to consider is that even T1 Robots seem to copy local ethos, when they should not (one of those on again, off again bugs).

Propaganda isn't cheap
And a good reason for keeping a healthy creds buffer (both storage and surplus).

Plus, adds so that it's harder to do this during war, as you'll probably use the credits for things like war fleets and buying of minerals or w/e.

If you're a bit into RP you can pretend that these are costly propaganda bots or something, and that you can't afford to colonize planets "properly" during war, which leads to wars either causing a stop in you expansion, or causing you to get pockets of "odd" planets where people with crazy ideas (ethos) live..