NationStates Jolt Archive

I chose the issue that gives my police satellite-guided truncheons in an effort to increase my Law and Order budget, said effort causing my civil rights rating to take a beating, and my XML feed still wrongly states that I have no Law and Order spending.

Is this a problem with the issue, the XML, or are the Mods just singling me out as their whipping boy du jour?

How do you know it is wrong?

How do you know it is wrong?
How do I KNOW it is wrong? Well, the fact that my police now have satellite-guided truncheons because I selected an issue that increases Law and Order spending kind of proves that, I don't think it needs any further explanation than that.

So? The variables go into negatives, as well. Let's say you had -10 for Law & Order. This issue increases that value by 5. You still have -5, so the XML would still show it as being zero.

EDIT: To clarify, the mods/admins have said the variables go into negatives, but the XML doesn't show them - so a -5 value (those values were completely hypothethical, incidentally) would show as 0.

That's what I assume happened.

So? The variables go into negatives, as well. Let's say you had -10 for Law & Order. This issue increases that value by 5. You still have -5, so the XML would still show it as being zero.Correct.

Ah, so that's why my defense budget is still zero even when I chose to increase spending in various issues.

Alright then, on that topic, what is my defence budget technically (i.e. how many times would I have to raise it before it would become a positive integer)? I've raised military spending several times but it's still at 0%, so I'm assuming it's still negative.

(Also that would explain why taxes sometimes can't be lowered: technically every time you increase taxes it goes up, even if it's already 100%, so some nations would have 150% or 175% tax rates...)

Hack once said he had a -400% tax rate. The test for admin applicants mentioned listing variables in the range of -200 to 200. So presumably there's quite some leeway.