Approval

Approval represents an empire's happiness, with high increasing FIDSI production and low decreasing it. A major effect on approval is Expansion Disapproval, which causes to decrease with each additional city settled or captured. In general, the approval mechanic encourages empires to carefully manage their development and discourages them from expanding too quickly.

Approval ranges between 0 and 100, with values outside this range truncated to fit. A city has a base of 60, and an Empire also has an empire-wide calculated as the average approval of all cities, weighted by Population.

Effects

City

City approval affects a city's Food and Industry production, as well as its Security.

Level	Min	Max	Effects
Rebellion	0	10	-50% , , -40 on city
Unhappy	11	39	-20% , , -20 on city
Content	40	60	+20 on city
Happy	61	89	+15% , , +30 on city
Fervent	90	100	+30% , , +40 on city

Empire

Empire approval affects empire-wide Dust and Science production.

Level	Min	Max	Effects
Rebellion	0	10	-50% , on empire
Unhappy	11	39	-20% , on empire
Content	40	60
Happy	61	89	+15% , on empire
Fervent	90	100	+30% , on empire

Modifiers

Generally speaking, the biggest penalties to approval are Expansion Disapproval, Districts (particularly the Borough Streets), and Ownership; and the greatest increases to are City Improvements and Luxury Resources.

Expansion Disapproval

There are many tools for managing approval in the game: even with -70 expansion disapproval, this city is still Fervent.

Every city suffers -10 Expansion Disapproval for every other city in the empire. Managing approval is thus a top priority for most empires, since it effectively limits how many cities the empire can efficiently control.

There are a few modifiers to expansion disapproval:

A faction's original capital has a Palace, which causes it to not generate any expansion disapproval.
The Allayi trait, We Chosen Few, causes cities to generate +150% expansion disapproval, so each additional city generates -25 expansion disapproval.
Two technologies, Bread and Circuses and State-Approved Theatre from Eras III and V, respectively, each reduce expansion disapproval by 25%.
The Legendary Deed Beloved of the People in Era V, when completed, grants the Patriotic Propaganda technology, which further reduces expansion disapproval by 50%. Completing the deed and researching both technologies above will reduce expansion disapproval to 0, allowing non- Allayi empires to expand freely with no penalty.
The Roving Clans governor skill Feet on the Street causes a city to not generate any expansion disapproval. This makes them extremely strong governors: a level 4 Roving Clans hero effectively grants empire-wide +10 , or +25 for the Allayi.

Aside from these, the primary ways to counteract expansion disapproval are buildings and luxury resource boosters. There are also some other Hero Capacities and Skills that reduce expansion disapproval, covered in the section below.

Districts

Name	Faction	Obtained			Effect
City Center	All	On Settle			+15 per extra Level on City Tile
Borough Streets	All except Allayi	At Start	Varies		-10 on City Tile +15 per extra Level on City Tile
Garth of the Allayi	Allayi	At Start	Varies	Varies	-5 on City Tile +15 per extra Level on City Tile
Abbey of Anomalies	All	3rd Winter	400	10	x2 on City Tile Limited to one copy in your City To be built on Anomaly
Altar of Auriga	All	At Start	150	10	+5 per level on Altar of Auriga Limited to one copy in your Empire
Cargo Docks	All	Era III	600		+10 on City Limited to one copy in your city Can only be built on coastal waters or ocean with exploitation
Museum of Auriga	All	At Start	500	5 5	+20 per level on Museum of Auriga +20% on Empire Approval (Happy) +20% on Empire Approval (Happy) +20% Cost reduction on Researches (Happy) Can only be built once in the world

Layouts

A Borough Streets has a base -10 penalty, but a level 2 Borough Streets gains +15 , for total of +5 instead. This encourages building districts in a double-wide line or in triangles to reach level 2 bonuses quickly, instead of spreading out throughout a region.

Cultists can level up their districts to level 3, granting each district +20 . The Allayi exclusive borough, the Garth of the Allayi, has a reduced base penalty of -5 .

Ownership

Main article: Ownership

A newly captured city will start with 0% Ownership, causing significant penalties to approval. These will decrease over time as ownership increases.

City Improvements

Name	Faction	Obtained			Upkeep	Effects
Palace	All	Available at start	-		0	x0 Expansion disapproval generation on city
Sewer System	All	Era I	75		1	+20 on City
Central Market	All	Era II	250	2	2	+25 on City
Altar of Transcendence	Ardent Mages	Faction Quest	1000	30 / 30 /	7	+30 on City Limited to one copy in your Empire
Auriga Institute	Drakken	Faction Quest	800	5	4	+20 on City Requires an income of 20 from the City
The Ogmakwan	Wild Walkers	Faction Quest	5000		10	+80 on City Limited to one copy in your Empire
Arts Council	All	Era V	2000	10 5	10	+30 on City
Imperial News Network	All	Era V	2000	5 10	10	+20 on City

Luxury Resources

Luxury Resources are one of the best ways to boost Approval; when active, they increase in every city in the empire, along with various other benefits.

Most Era I luxury resources ( Dye, Emeralds, Gold, and Spices) grant +5 .
Wine instead grants +30 to all cities, making it one of best ways to increase approval in the early game.
All other luxury resources grant +10 .

Heroes

Skills

Skill Tree	Level	Name	Effect
Ardent Mages	4	Persuasive Methods	Level 1: -50% expansion disapproval received on city. Level 2: -50% expansion disapproval received on city.
Roving Clans	2	Feet on the Street	Level 1: +100% Ownership recovery rate on city. Level 2: +50% Ownership recovery rate on city. x0 Expansion disapproval generation on city.
Drakken	5	Cultural Ambassador	Level 1: +10 on city. Level 2: +10 on city. Level 3: +10 on city.
Morgawr	2	Cult of Tides	Level 1: +10 on city with oceanic exploitation. Level2: +10 on city with oceanic exploitation. Level 3: +15 on city with oceanic exploitation.
Kapaku	2	Heat of the Hearth	Level 1: +2 Approval for city center and expansions on Volcanic terrain. Level 2: +2 Approval for city center and expansions on Volcanic terrain.
Sisters of Mercy	1	Righteous Cause	Level 1: +10 on city. Level 2: +10 on city. Level 3: +10 on city

Capacities

Hero	Icon	Name	Effect
Breyos Master Icespear		Expansion Support 1	-25% expansion disapproval received on city
Ystros Watcher Firespike		Expansion Support 2	-50% expansion disapproval received on city

Accessories

Material	Tier		Effect
Mithrite	1	24	+2 per unit on city
Mithrite	2	48	+4 per unit on city
Mithrite	3	96	+8 per unit on city

Miscellaneous

Terrain

Certain Anomalies grant +10 (or very rarely, +20 ). These can be very powerful early game, easily bumping a city from one approval level to the next, not to mention their other bonuses to tile yields. It is generally recommended to settle early cities near these anomalies to help them develop more quickly.

Assimilation

The Eyeless Ones provide an assimilation bonus of +5 on Cities per pacified and rebuilt village, up to +30 .

Empire Plan

The Empire Plan's Empire and Expansion level 2 bonus increases the Approval of all cities by 25.

Technology

As mentioned above, Bread and Circuses and State-Approved Theatre both reduce Expansion Disapproval by 25% each.

The Necrophages-exclusive Era II technology, Demanding Gods, enables a city to sacrifice Population to gain +30 for a number of turns equal to its population count before sacrifice.

Urkans

The Urkan Power training grants +50 to allied cities, or -50 otherwise, to regions adjacent to where Chaka or Fakir are rooted.

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