What happens to social production when your not building?

I think in some way they are converted into cash, because the manual states that used manufacture point will require 1 BC to spend.

But for me, if I am not building any social improvement, I usually just moved them to either my reseach or military, by going into the planetary management window and click the icons above to put more focus on the two areas.

Of course, another alternative is that if all your planets are not currently producing, you can just set social production to 0% in the empire management screen.

You can conver some of them into Research or Military Production by clicking the icons at the top of the colony management screen for each area (it focuses your production on that world on one of the three areas at a time). Other than that, unused production capacity is just wasted.

As far as the money issue goes, it doesn't get "converted" into cash, but the effect is the same: every point of production capacity, whether it's military, social, or research, costs 1bc/turn to actually produce something. But if you aren't producing anything of that type on a world, the game is aware of that and doesn't charge you for the idle factory/empty lab/whatever. So you will have a greater income per turn if you're not producing anything, since your expenses are lessened.

- Ash

Thanks for the info, that answeres my question

As far as the money issue goes, it doesn't get "converted" into cash, but the effect is the same: every point of production capacity, whether it's military, social, or research, costs 1bc/turn to actually produce something. But if you aren't producing anything of that type on a world, the game is aware of that and doesn't charge you for the idle factory/empty lab/whatever

Well, sorry to contradict you, but with an empty queue, social production is wasted, contrary to what the manual states. You can easily test it: set your tax rate to 0, general spending to 100% and 100% on social. Note the number for you budget, your treasury, hit turn and see how much you treaury has decreased.

I second that. Without something in the social production que, you're baking air. Sure, you can emphasize another allocation or cut social production to 0% overall, but that still doesn't get rid of the problem. I think this needs to be fixed.

From this thread https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=346&AID=105246 post #5

Social production is indeed "Wasted". This was a game balance decision. The manual is incorrect is all. It would be much harder to manage your economy if the net revenue was changing drastically every time you got a new technology that started upgrading your planetary improvements. We plan to eventually make it so that social production improves your approval rating. But it will need play testing.

So it is official: wasting social production when building nothing is a feature and not a bug.