NationStates Jolt Archive

I believe there is a problem with the issue regarding the banning (or not banning) of the Harry Potter books. I chose not to ban the books. What was the result? My civil rights went down. That makes no sense at all... I mean I can't even think of a humorous connection like I can with most issues. Anyone else experience this problem?

I banned them so I wouldn't really know. But ya your right not banning Harry Potter books should raise civil rights, not lower them.

YOU BANNED HP BOOKS!?! Huh. Didn't know ppl on here didn't like them. STILL!!

ANyways...it lowered Civil rights? I think it raised mine. I went from physocit(sp) dicstatorship to democratic socialists with that I think...eh.

For me it lowered my civil rights from frightening to excessive

Ah, that may explain it. There was a (vaguely) similar thread about a week ago, in which Hack explained a (vaguely) similar anomaly.

$choice on $issue moves your taxes towards 90%. For most people, it'll raise their taxes. If your tax rate is over 90%, however, the choice will lower your tax rate.

There's not many of these left and tend to require a given stat to be at an extreme end of the spectrum. So, yes, it can happen, it just won't happen frequently.

Now, it may be that this (old) HP issue moves Civil Rights to a value of 95 (I don't know the coding works, so that's not a real number). Pretty high. Except that Frightening is the highest you can get, so maybe your Civil Rights were already 98. In which case they become high...but in this case actually lower.

I'm not saying that's what happened here. But it's a possible answer.

Thanks for the explaination, depressing at least I know what happened.

Well, you don't 'know' what happened yet, because this isn't an official answer. It's a guess. I should watch this thread: hopefully a mod will come in and give a definitive answer as to whether this is indeed how it works, or whether there's another reason.