Lotus withdrawl happens too fast. I had a place with 78% lotus users and it lost 390% of them per turn. I think something is wrong with the math.

Can you give me a screenshot of the lotus supply modifier description and the local population for the input/output numbers?

Users going away turn after supply removed. There is no supply modifier here.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232823906

Previous turn supply.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232824240

Fix is up

When I got 300 gold in coffers, I got a recruitment point independent of the power that grants it. When I used this point, it did not subtract gold from coffers.

Please add a message when an operation (lotus fields and stockpiles). I don't want to keep watching all of them to know when I need to rebuild one.

Enshadowed characters should have reduced motivation to destroy operations too.

recpoint fix and message implemented

im not in the mood to do the full-run required to balance and test a getUtility() on the lotus quests but in the interim i've just locked the ability to do them for fully enshadowed characters

Thank you for the quick response.

The message for burnt assets seems to say the location burned was Assets.Code.Location - is this just a relic from an old save? Also, can we get a button to pan to the location in question?

You should have 1 point of power that isn't actually used for any abilities, just so you can pick event options that use power.

string bug fixed, pan location button cannot be added easily but nation name added to string instead

power was left at 0 explicitly so that it COULDN'T be used for events as one of the gimmicks

The lotus elder being seems to encourage a lot of micromanagement and constant watching every turn. Plantations can't be reduced in size while someone is burning them, thus it encourages checking to see if someone is on the way to do so. It also encourages ramping them up to a large size due to the limits of available infiltrated places to put them, which amplifies the need to be watchful. Unfortunately the end result is a big chore of repetitive actions that involve little actual thinking.

As the game goes on and the rate of menace/profile growth gets higher and the number of plantations increases, the situation gets even worse.

Agree with the comment above and also time limit is very strange cause it's not justified in any way and you can easily lose without specific condition for it(world panic ramps up and you just can't mantain your plantations). Generally you just can't build your drug empire because your investments don't payoff fast enough before they are destroyed and enshadowing heroes is way harder than rulers.