

I suppose when Dust, Science and Influence are concerned it sucks but that is the price one pays for being a Militaristic conqueror. If you're Cravers, you don't care about system happiness(too much) since there is no rebellion. Federation Government can increase this by 2 and United Empire has a unique perk on Xeno Anthropology(+1 systems). You see your Colony limit by entering Empire screen in upper left. You can also outright remove the penalty on systems by utilizing Benthic Gems in System Developments(-50% per upgrade, hence using it twice removes it). If you have Stay at Home faction trait, the penalty is doubled to -20 while having the Expansionists trait(United Empire) reduces it by 25%(50% if you have Expansionists II on a custom faction). Um its -10 per colony over the limit(outposts do not count).
