[MEGATHREAD] Unusual Issue Effects Since New Update

[New Glubbdubdrib]

409.2

2. "Duuuuuude, we didn't go far enough," wheezes @@RANDOMNAME@@, creeping into your office from an open window, "It was a great idea to legalize all drugs - and an even greater idea to put chems in the water, so everyone can just chill. Everybody must get stoned, man; it's like that song. Now, it is a shame and an outrage, dear leader, that users of certain socially stigmatized drugs continue to be left out in the cold. It isn't fair that people who like to drink the tap water get it for free, while I have to spend my hard-earned @@CURRENCY@@s importing rare diamondback licking-toads. The government should subsidize all recreational drug use!"

Economic Output up. No effect on Health or Recreational Drug Use. This seems weird.

[Trotterdam]

Edit: Oh, ok, I followed the link from the earlier post and apparently that issue exists as #295. But Ive definitely never seen that issue before, which makes me further believe I've never had a compulsory nudity policy.

Random speculation: did you ever receive the military uniform issue and choose to make your soldiers go naked? I don't know how that affects the Nudity stat, but it at least technically means having compulsory nudity (for a small segment of the population, and while on duty).

[[violet]]

Every issue affects the residency stat indirectly because time passes in between answering issues.

Hmm, I thought I had fixed that.

[[violet]]

At some point in the past you must have pushed nudity to be compulsory for either everyone or just woman.

I'm almost positive I have never done that, but I can't say it's impossible, I suppose. I've been doing the "my choice to dangle" option since my nation was founded though, so I don't know...

I'm not sure when it happened, but I can see there was some compulsory nudity in Jolteonia before you answered #008.

[[violet]]

I chose option 2 of Violent Violetists Demand Blood!, and it raised inclusiveness? How?

This issue option directly raises diversity.

[Jolteonia]

I'm not sure when it happened, but I can see there was some compulsory nudity in Jolteonia before you answered #008.

I guess I stand corrected. Thank you very much for looking into it.

Random speculation: did you ever receive the military uniform issue and choose to make your soldiers go naked?

Ha. Never seen that one. My military is probably too small to put that in the rotation.

[Phydios]

Why would 64.2 lower weather? Tested on Drahuria.
Why would 110.2 raise taxes? Tested on Chirun.
Why would 214.2 lower corruption? Tested on Chirun.

[Empire of Donner land]

Issue 419 choice 1 lowers Weather by 1.3 Percent? Why?

[The National Republic of Eye Doo]

Issue 196 Option 5

It bans religion, but for some reason increases religiousness by 45% and lowers secularism by 45%. I don't think that's meant to happen, if it is, I would kinda like to see it reverted, as I wouldn't have chose that option if I knew that the outcome was going to be that.

[Wine-loving Chimps]

In the issue "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte", for option 3, there were literally no stat changes at all. That strikes me as rather strange.

[Sleep]

In the issue "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte", for option 3, there were literally no stat changes at all. That strikes me as rather strange.

The stat that it changes was already beyond it's threshold. There would be no visible change but at least one thing did change.

[[violet]]

Issue 196 Option 5

It bans religion, but for some reason increases religiousness by 45% and lowers secularism by 45%. I don't think that's meant to happen, if it is, I would kinda like to see it reverted, as I wouldn't have chose that option if I knew that the outcome was going to be that.

That very much looks like a buggy issue to me. I'll raise it with Issue Editors.

[The Greater Bohemian Union]

#038: @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars [Sentient Peoples]

Selected: "Don't tell me space colonies wouldn't be cool," says excited fifth-grade teacher @@RANDOMNAME@@, still wearing big Spock ears from his last convention. "Think of how they would galvanize the national population! And there would also be some kind of scientific benefit, probably."

It increased religiousness by 1.3% and decreased secularism by 2.2%. Shouldn't that have been the other way around? Especially in a huge 18.7% boost in scientific advancement.

[[violet]]

It increased religiousness by 1.3% and decreased secularism by 2.2%. Shouldn't that have been the other way around? Especially in a huge 18.7% boost in scientific advancement.

Scientific progress actually doesn't affect Religiousness. This issue option caused a large, broad-based increase in government size, affecting all departments. Your public spending on Spirituality is nil, but only barely, and since it's closer to being positive than it used to be, it's seen as a rise.

[Trotterdam]

How did #262 option 3 lower Inclusiveness?

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Probably just a counterintuitive result, but...

Issue 486: not enough military recruits, all options constitute some way to increase enlistment levels. There's no "pacifist" option with this one. Only gotten this with one nation so far (this one).

Option 2 decreases both Defense Forces and Weaponization. Marginally, but still. Fluke, or intended result of not using nefarious or terrifying tactics?

[Leppikania]

Option 85.1: freedom from taxation goes up but taxation not down. (Generic Beauracracy)

[Luna Amore]

Option 85.1: freedom from taxation goes up but taxation not down. (Generic Beauracracy)

Freedom From Taxation goes up 0.08% or about .3 on the scale

Little inconsistencies like this probably shouldn't be reported because A) they are so minor as to be nearly irrelevant and B) it's most likely a difference in rounding.

[CoraSpia]

In the paternity leave issue, granting 6 months payed leave to be split between couples, for some bizarre reason, increases income equality by a staggering 1071 %.

[Luna Amore]

In the paternity leave issue, granting 6 months payed leave to be split between couples, for some bizarre reason, increases income equality by a staggering 1071 %.

Yup. Your income equality went from 0.91 → 10.66 which is a 1,071% increase

[CoraSpia]

In the paternity leave issue, granting 6 months payed leave to be split between couples, for some bizarre reason, increases income equality by a staggering 1071 %.

Yup. Your income equality went from 0.91 → 10.66 which is a 1,071% increase

Doesn't that seem slightly excessive?

[Luna Amore]

Issue 196 Option 5

It bans religion, but for some reason increases religiousness by 45% and lowers secularism by 45%. I don't think that's meant to happen, if it is, I would kinda like to see it reverted, as I wouldn't have chose that option if I knew that the outcome was going to be that.

Fixed. Adjusted your stats to match the new effect. I'll check back to make sure the graph updates.

[Phydios]

Why would 64.2 lower weather? Tested on Drahuria.
Why would 110.2 raise taxes? Tested on Chirun.
Why would 214.2 lower corruption? Tested on Chirun.

36-hour bump.

[Mironus]

Why would 64.2 lower weather? Tested on Drahuria.

36-hour bump.

Weather is unpredictable.
From what I've seen, in addition to pollution and such, it is also affected by the mood of your citizens. If you're picking options where people are angry or complaining, the weather tends to get worse.

And if you pick options that make people happy, it tends to make the weather better. Even if said option involves, for instance, shooting poets for entertainment (56.3).

[Outer Sparta]

Issue 320, Criminals To Vote? option 2 has no statistical changes whatsoever. Tested on my puppet, The City-State of Corinth.