I wanted to verify that the Oppression trait under the Totalitarianism ideology actually worked so I took some screen snapshots before and after unlocking the Oppression trait.

• The first screen snapshot was take before unlocking the Oppression trait and shows that the effect should be "Faction benefits increased by 50%".
• The second screen snapshot shows the Faction benefits (and penalties which should be 0.0 since I have already unlocked the Censorship trait, but I have already talked about that bug in a previous post) before unlocking the Oppression trait.
• The third screen snapshot shows that I unlocked the Oppression trait, and
• The fourth screen snapshot shows the Faction benefits after unlocking the Oppression trait.

Here are the effects:

• The Endless Emporium benefit went from 35.9% to 50.2% which is a 39.8% increase, not a 50% increase.
• The Natural League benefit went from 13.3% to 20% which is a 50% increase.
• The Freemind Center benefit went from 4.5% to 4.5% which is a 0% increase.
• The Warforged benefit went from 27.6% to 37.2% which is a 34.8% increase.

Clearly, only 1 faction got a 50% increase and 1 faction did not get any increase at all.

This demontrates 2 things:

1. You really need to dedicate some resources to fixing the factions.  I have made a number of posts showing the many issues that need to be addressed with factions, this is not the only one by any means.
2. Whoever is in charge of math in this game has a difficult job because of all of the many calculations that need to be done, but the fact that the job is difficult does not mean that it shouldn't be done correctly and by correctly, I mean that players should be able to verify that, what the user interface said the effect of doing something would be, is in fact what the effect was.