Income Distribution

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I am sure this has been mentioned so your patience is appreciated. Regarding the INCOME DISTRIBUTION SLIDERS. Say I set them at 35, 35, 30 (military, social and research) - the sliding bars are in the middle of the bar. However, I just looked at a screen shot of this from this site and they show 42, 17, 41 and the bars for 42 and 41 are at the top - what i assumed would be 100% This *must* be by what people meant when they spoke of "wasted" money. so my question is:

1) Is that what wasted money is
1a) why isnt social being wasted at 17 (the bar is in the middle)

I thought i had those bars figured out. Any insight would be appreciated!

THANKS
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Also, what do the smaller and larger icons means at the bottome of the slider? sometimes they get big then revert to small. THANKS :)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The sliders value is determined by comparing it to the other two sliders.

Slide all three sliders to the top, and you get 34/33/33. Slide social DOWN from there, and you get 50/0/50 (M/S/R).

The sliders are the 'proportion' of your spending. If you want to spend 75% on Military, 0 on Social, and 25% on Research, you put the Military slider to the top, Social to the bottom, and adjust the Research slider to the 25% point.

Wasted production/money refers to the fact that even if you don't have anything in that queue (military/social), if you have the sliders set so that some money will go to that category, the money still gets spent.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
GalCiv sliders are propotional sliders, not absolute sliders. If three sliders were at max/max/zero, the percentages would be 50/50/0. The icon size is just a visual reminder of how much you are spending into that area. It serves no other purpose I am aware of.