Issues with Math for Issues

[Blitze]

Alright, I am going to apologize if this has been brought up before, as I am sure it has, however there is a slight problem with math when one completes an issue. One can go into negative numbers on something, such as freedom from taxation (I am -185 before an issue). However, when it increases by 1.3%, it says my freedom from taxation goes down to say -184, which would be incorrect math. A negative number that has an increased percentage will increase the negative number not go down. So I don't know if this is purposely like this, or if should be fixed, and I am sorry if this has been pointed out before, thank you for taking the time to read.

[Haydia]

-184 is greater than -185.

[Trotterdam]

I am pretty sure that the displayed percentages are percentages of the absolute value of the previous stat. So -185 "plus" 1.3% would be -182.595. This is to ensure that positive percentages always signify increases and negative percentages always signify decreases, since quite often you'll be more interested in the direction of the change than the exact value.

This is pretty clearly deliberate. Coding the calculation to use absolute values would take more effort than using the "obvious" math, and so is unlikely to have been done by accident.

I'm not sure how the game handles it when a value that was previously exactly zero stops being zero. (Mathematically speaking, that's an increase/decrease of infinity percent.) I think the game describes it as rising/falling by exactly 100%, I recall seeing that once.

[Blitze]

-184 is greater than -185.

Sorry, I meant went up to -184, but the percentage thing holds true.

[Blitze]

I am pretty sure that the displayed percentages are percentages of the absolute value of the previous stat. So -185 "plus" 1.3% would be -182.595. This is to ensure that positive percentages always signify increases and negative percentages always signify decreases, since quite often you'll be more interested in the direction of the change than the exact value.

This is pretty clearly deliberate. Coding the calculation to use absolute values would take more effort than using the "obvious" math, and so is unlikely to have been done by accident.

I'm not sure how the game handles it when a value that was previously exactly zero stops being zero. (Mathematically speaking, that's an increase/decrease of infinity percent.) I think the game describes it as rising/falling by exactly 100%, I recall seeing that once.

And fair enough. Just making sure.