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New Stat Suggestion: Depression

Postby Revived Unclear » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:13 pm

There is already a happiness stat in NationStates, so yesterday I thought, if there's a cheerfulness stat, why not suggest a Unhappiness stat?

How the unhappiness stat would work:

Crime, death date, authoritarianism, charmlessness, obesity, and some policies including, ID Chip, Conscription, No Internet, Permanent Marriage, Curfew, the list goes on, meeting some or all of these perquisites would lead you to have a higher Unhappiness stat.

What are NS's thoughts on this suggestion?, any feedback would be appreciated.

EDIT: Forgot to put Obesity in here
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Postby Click ests vimgalevytopia » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:19 pm

You’re referring to Cheerfulness, right? I believe that a Despondency/Depression stat would be a more specific census ranking than a very general “unhappiness”.

Your general idea, I believe, could work.
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Postby Revived Unclear » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:20 pm

ClIcK eStS vImGaLeVyToPiA wrote:You’re referring to Cheerfulness, right? I believe that a Despondency/Depression stat would be a more specific census ranking than a very general “unhappiness”.

Your general idea, I believe, could work.

Yeah, I meant that, I got the words mixed up
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Postby Kupirijo » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:21 pm

This is a very good Idea, hope a tech person sees it.
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Postby Sernet » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:22 pm

another gold stat for me
(idk why my cheerfulness is so low but id assume that itd be the opposite of cheerfuless, the same way corruption/integrity etc. work)
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Postby Revived Unclear » Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:30 pm

EDIT: I listened to the actually constructive criticism, and decided to rename the suggestion Depression, feel free to discuss this.
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Postby Kyrindor » Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:32 pm

Works as a better conflicter for cheerfulness. However I'm not sure if they may be developing new stats.
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Postby Thorn1000 » Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:03 am

Kyrindor wrote:Works as a better conflicter for cheerfulness. However I'm not sure if they may be developing new stats.

New stat developments can be found at https://www.nationstates.net/page=beta , and it does seem like the IE team is working on a couple
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Postby Kordavia » Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:05 am

Finally a stat I could be first in the world in.
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Postby Socialist Ancomistan » Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:36 pm

Kordavia wrote:Finally a stat I could be first in the world in.


Almost all #1 nations in each stat have been answering issues for years, often over a decade. Top 1% is most certainly attainable but the best time to get #1 in the entire game for stats is pretty much over.

The only exception to this is stats that cap at a certain value like Civil Rights, Economic Freedom, Political Freedom, Recreational Drug Use (maybe). For these stats, we essentially have hundreds of nations which tie for #1
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