NationStates Jolt Archive

I hope this is the correct place to put this.

What I was wondering is whether decisions you make in your nation have a long time effect (unless of course overruled by counter actions) or only a short time effect?

There's some kind of 'hopping back' motion I noticed this week. For example... my crime rate was first moderate. I had the police walk the streets and put cameras in the public places, which reduced the crime rates well. But with the new update the lines of 'cameras in public places' have disappeared (seems to happen after a few days) and the crime rate is suddenly up again.

Coincidence or not? Anyone who has an idea of the memory span of NationStates? :wink:

Jeeze, I forget :(
(Bad short term memory I have)

OK, some issues have a big impact (long-term) while other can easily get reversed by contradictory issues (ie short-term). Tax rates and spending issues have long-term effects while some superficial ones don't.

My understanding is as follows:

You crime-rate is one of the statistics describing the state of your nation. When a decision you make goes into effect, the stats are changed. This change is permanent, not temporary. Since other decisions will modify your stats as well, your crimerate can fluctuate as a consequence of decisions you might not expect to have an effect on it.

The items you see listed at the start of the third paragraph of your nation's description (before it discusses the crime-rate) are the effects of the last four decisions you've made. They rotate out as you make new decisions, but this has as far as I know no effect on your nation's statistics.

Ballotonia

Ah, thanks for the replies =)

It makes sense that these lines are rotated out (otherwise the amount of text would keep growing almost endlessly)... it was just that at the same moment the cameras 'disappeared' from my nation's writeup, the crimerate shot back up. So that was why I was wondering. But I cannot garantee (sp?) that one of the late actions I have taken have had a change in crime rate as side effect as well. :wink: