Just saw that there are discontent citizens due to high crime.  They're the one not showing up.  I've never experienced such a high crime rate.  All the colonies are feeding it into my homeworld.  For some reason my Custom civ has abase crime rate of 6.  I'll have to check, but I certainly didn't pick any criminal traits and haven't seen this before.  Just noticed that all my custom civs start out with my homeworld governor with a malevolence ideology.  No traits I picked for my civs should give this ideology.  Is this something that got broke with Custom Civs created under the old Culture rules with the update?

So basically the game I posted above is fubared because of crime. At 100% there is no way to stop this - the ideologies to reverse crime are buried too deep in the trees.  I'll try starting another game, but this turned what was a great game into garbage.  I sure hope this wasn't a new game mechanic added on purpose.

Many times in new 4X games they put something new to add realism. This appears to be one of those cases or at least the way it interacts with the game. 

Each planet adding to the total is not how it works, 3% on planet A and 3% on planet b, C, D, and E is not 15% crime but 3% I know this and I barely passed High School math. 50+ years ago. 

Not having a way to rehabilitate criminal without micro management is bad. If I have to manage each pop for crime then I want an option to have them do EVA without a suit.

So add tech that reduces crime it should never go above 5% a Botany Bay colony would be an option.  

I'd have to put one on every planet I own   

So the secondary problem here is that for every custom race I create, the starting Governor for my Civ homeworld gets malevolence as their ideology.  This is obviously broken.  It should use the ideology I picked when I created my custom Civ.  Malevolence isn't even an ideology in 1.55.377081 Cultural Progression.  So Custom Civs is broken under 1.55.377081. At least for me.  Try it and see if that's what happens for you guys.

Actually, you only need one. As per the tool tip, one applies its effect on all your colonies and core world.

Quoting Draver,

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Actually, you only need one. As per the tool tip, one applies its effect on all your colonies and core world.

Never had any need for an Orbital Prison before so thanks for that info.  

Never said it was nihilism, said it was malevolence which isn't in the game anymore.  The point is it's totally breaking Custom Civs. and they're basically unplayable until this issue gets fixed.

Don't think so.  I made new Custom Civs of different types and everyone had the same issue with Civ leader having malevolence ideology, which led to rampant crime.  Tried switching back & forth from Steam to Epic, same result.

The question remains - why does your civ leader have malevolence.  He's supposed to have the ideology of your Civ.  Why should Custom Civs be forced down a path, I never pick Security lights as there are much better picks, they don't think is optimal?  I was also experiencing a much higher than normal occurence of criminals and probably sent them to my colonies with realizing it, no idea how you get rid of a criminal on a colony.  As it shows in my first example above, every colony was feeding 9% crime to my home planet.  New players trying out a Custom Civ, this is after all one of the major attractions of the game, would find themselves with a disaster of an unplayable game.  I don't think that's the experience Stardock is hoping for with newbies.

I am currently playing as the Altarian Republic (Civ home planet Gov has ideology Benevolence) and I've seen 5 criminal citizens by turn 268 on my 3 core worlds.  That I can live with and as a game mechanic keeps me on my toes.  But that is not what I'm seeing in my custom civ games.   

I've got five different Custom games starts that all went the same way & the only thing I can see is the Malevolent ideology.  I agree you can stop it if you know what you're looking for from the start.  However if you don't know it's coming & send the criminal population out to your colonies your goose is cooked. New players won't know how to deal with this.

Can you play the game save I attached in Reply #4?  Please try & tell me what you think.

Publius - thanks for doing that.  So, I agree that's it's possible to turn these games around.  The question still remains - why in the name of all the Elder Gods did you have to go thru all that nonsense to play a custom Civ!!!  A normal Civ doesn't make you do that.  So IMHO - Custon Civs are broken.