Is there a reason that the Horatio start with they option to spend production on Religious Propaganda? I don't see any propaganda options for the other political leanings, and even the Vodyani don't seem to have access to it.  Is this just a bug at the moment? I would think that as soon as you unlocked a political party, you would be able to use propaganda for that party.

Also, if propaganda is currently being used, does it increase the happiness of species with that political leaning, or does it just increase the political leaning of that system toward that political party without having to build things that would do that normally?

One last question for the devs, do you guys still plan to use propaganda as a means of influencing migration between systems, or is it just for politics?

Happiness in a system is increased/decreased depending on the representation of that system in your senate

if your system is full of religious people but the senate is ruled by pacifists you'll get a happiness penalty 

satoru wrote:

Happiness in a system is increased/decreased depending on the representation of that system in your senate

if your system is full of religious people but the senate is ruled by pacifists you'll get a happiness penalty 

Right now, this seems to be a very small one.  I've not seen more than -2, often paired with a +1.5 for representation in the senate.  I like the idea, but it ultimately doesn't matter much, certainly not enough that I'd spend turns on propaganda if I didn't have literally anything else to spend turns on.

satoru wrote:

Happiness in a system is increased/decreased depending on the representation of that system in your senate

if your system is full of religious people but the senate is ruled by pacifists you'll get a happiness penalty 

Just when I start to think this game might be simplistic in certain areas, it simply turns out I just have no idea what I'm doing. It's both entertaining and vexing at the same time :P