Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug, or I'm just misunderstanding what some of the FIDS tooltips are trying to show, but sometimes (often) the breakdown they give don't make much sense to me.



I've attached a screenshot of a simple example:







Now, the exploitation I've used gives +2 dust per population on planet, and +1 dust per population on desert. Deserts themselves don't give any dust, and the antonoy rings anomaly gives +2 per pop on planet.



If I put them all together, I get

Anomaly = +2 * 4 = +8 dust

Exploitation = +3 * 4 = +12 dust



8 + 12 = 20, so the total result shown is correct, but the breakdown it gives doesn't make any sense to me. 15 + 3 + 2 adds up to 20, but where is the 15 coming from?

Good question, I changed the title.



The dev team has decided on this approach, although many people find it "not very obvious". The +3 and +2 displayed in the tooltip match the values you already know, from the planet+exploit, and from the anomaly. The other 15 is where they have done the multiplication of your additional population, the +5 total * 3 additional pop = 15. This way, you can see at a glance the total "per population" values of +3 and +2. Many people are confused by this, some people like it.

It makes a lot of people wonder if their "per population" system improvements are working properly, though. It would be much more intuitive if the tooltip said "x4 from population" or "+15 from additional population" and placed the population line at the bottom.