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by Menta Lee-IL » Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:55 am
by Candlewhisper Archive » Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:14 am
by Menta Lee-IL » Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:59 am
by Candlewhisper Archive » Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:17 am
by Lamaredia » Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:09 am
by The Free Joy State » Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:22 am
Lamaredia wrote:Issue #45, about baseball teams.
Quick question, I chose the option to financially support the teams, getting the blurb "Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day.".
Why did obesity go up? Is it a play on the snacks going around in the stadium? I would otherwise think that supporting sports would get obesity down, with health going up again.
by The Free Joy State » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:28 pm
Shen Yun wrote:698.4 resulted in a science decrease. Why would banning my citizens from owning guns cause this?
by Kromi » Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:22 am
English: The 2nd Federation Of Kromi
Malay: Federasi Kromi Kedua
Never gonna give you up,
This nation doesn't represent my views;
and I nerfed my nation alot, Lol.
Krominese News: THE HISTORY OF KROMI IS BEING RETYPED
by The Free Joy State » Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:50 am
Kromi wrote:Issue #37,
Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
Option #2,
"Well, I AM saying we should block out that filth," says a man in a dark hat, stepping from the shadows. "If people want to use the internet, they can view our government-approved sites. Those are swell."
Result,
"The country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content."
No internet is enacted.
Experience,
I'm frustrated, I have encountered this once when I joined nationstates. At that time, I wanted to remove it so badly. I did, and I encountered this issue again. I picked the same option and I got frustrated again. I waited for months to remove it, Only to enact it again.
Question,
Why was no internet enacted? I thought it meant information permitted by the goverment is allowed. It said "If people want to use the internet, they can view our government-approved sites.".
by The Papal Republics » Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:39 pm
by ROFLOLMAO LAND » Tue Oct 23, 2018 3:14 pm
by The Marsupial Illuminati » Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:34 pm
The Papal Republics wrote:Why would 251.2 cause my economy to contract by nearly 11 percent?
ROFLOLMAO LAND wrote:I know this choice typically gives a huge impact to your economy, but maybe too big here? Issue 490 Choice 1 took my economy down from 99.70 to 50.67. Govt spending was only 36.7% of GDP, and business subsidies were only 17% of that. Also crime went from 1.93 to 17. Pretty god dam sure that part is wrong atleast.
Again, idk, not a developer. Maybe I was getting too greedy with decresing my govt size.
by The Marsupial Illuminati » Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:42 pm
ROFLOLMAO LAND wrote:and it will apply retroactively?
by ROFLOLMAO LAND » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:40 am
by The Super Knife » Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:00 pm
2. "I can certainly see why Miss McCormack would feel like drastic measures were her only option," notes self-professed moderate pro-life advocate, Jedson Dumphy. "Fortunately, I have a solution that can't fail to please all y'all folks. We'll permit it, only for very specific exceptions: for victims of legitimate, proven non-consensual sex or when the host-mother will certainly die without treatment, up to a nine-week gestation period, and with permission of the baby's father."
by The Free Joy State » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:53 pm
The Super Knife wrote:Issue #817 Back-Alley Blues
Abortion was banned in my country, but I chose option #2.2. "I can certainly see why Miss McCormack would feel like drastic measures were her only option," notes self-professed moderate pro-life advocate, Jedson Dumphy. "Fortunately, I have a solution that can't fail to please all y'all folks. We'll permit it, only for very specific exceptions: for victims of legitimate, proven non-consensual sex or when the host-mother will certainly die without treatment, up to a nine-week gestation period, and with permission of the baby's father."
I expected the abortion ban to be repealed, but it was not. The abortion ban remained in place even thought the issue says we are now allowing it under specific circumstances.
ROFLOLMAO LAND wrote:Well regardless, even if so, is it possible the currently programmed effects malfunctioned? I still feel its larger then it should be.
by Ghost Land » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:34 am
by Candlewhisper Archive » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:13 pm
by Jutsa » Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:07 pm
by Ghost Land » Fri Oct 26, 2018 5:58 am
by The Free Joy State » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:02 am
Ghost Land wrote:^ When did anybody mention 490? The issue I mentioned in my post was 762.
Another one from the same nation just now that made me mad: 177.1 just almost doubled my ideological radicality and caused a 10% drop in averageness, even though it reintroduced elections and removed my autocracy. Democracy is a lot less radical than a dictatorship, no?
Now I'm down to level 29 on that nation even after busting my balls and getting up to level 31.
Ghost Land wrote:I just answered an issue on my main nation (60s Music) a few minutes ago that ticked me off. 762.3 caused all my industries to drop hugely except my pizza industry, which went up (not that I'm complaining about that one). More confusingly, why did my primitiveness drop? That option is supposed to bring your nation more so back-to-basics without the hectic 24/7 business cycle, isn't it?
My income also plummeted, and my tax rate increased significantly, reducing my disposable income from among the best it's been to among the worst.
"Why didn't tax / unemployment / black market do what I expected it to?"
NS uses a complex model to calculate a lot of things, which can lead to counter-intuitive results.
- Why didn't tax fall when spending was described as reducing (or why didn't it rise when spending was described as rising)?
The answer usually lies in your economic output.
The more economic output you have, the less %tax you need to support your spending.
Bear in mind that economic output is dependent on a lot of interacting factors. Sometimes an option will cause you to shrink your economy by more than you proportionally shrank your spending, causing a tax rise to support the same spending. Sometimes it won't. Often different things will happen to different nations faced with the same issue choice.
- Why didn't tax fall when an option described a corporation tax cut / sales tax cut?
The tax model of the game is very simplistic, and it basically abstracts all spending as income tax and doesn't take into account any idea of government borrowing, deficit spending or tax from sources other than income tax.
That gives us limited tools for simulation.
Corporation tax is rolled into business subsidisation, with lowering of corporate tax representing an effective business subsidisation, and a shifting of tax burden onto the income taxpayer.
Sales tax and VAT, meanwhile, move income tax inversely, as raising more revenue from these forms of taxation decreases the burden on income tax, and vice versa.
This isn't entirely satisfactory, of course, as it means that the descriptions of "Freedom From Taxation" on the graphs aren't accurate, but it's reflective of how the game engine is written and of the simulation's limitations. It basically isn't possible to have burden of taxation and income tax move in opposite directions, as in the simulation all measured tax = income tax.
by Ghost Land » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:09 am
The Free Joy State wrote:-snip-
by The Free Joy State » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:22 am
Ghost Land wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:-snip-
Thank you very much for the information.
I'm still disappointed about dropping to level 29 when I used to be a 31 - it's hard to earn challenge points when you're at a lower level and can't beat as many people!
Also, why do so many issues make several-percent impacts in either direction on my pizza industry on that nation, even issues that have nothing to do with pizza whatsoever? This has been going on since long before I got the top 1% trophy, and up until recently, cheese was my biggest industry (funny because cheese is an ingredient on pizza), so that's not it either.
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