OT: Cyber Nation

[Renegade 13]

Tyyria offers $3000 and 175 soldiers to our attacked ally.

My happiness rating is sitting at 19.30, even with my tax rate at 23%.

[NullAshton]

I have very happy, but that's a bit off since I have too strong of a military, and at defcon 1.

[GuyOfDoom]

Wow, the highest I've seen is 19.1. Right now I'm at about 17.1

[aegisx]

I've been over 20. But Im lower now.

[Baron Munchausen]

I've been as high as 24 but I keep getting deserted by trading partners. People keep moving to other alliances and costing me nice trade advantages, and I'm getting ticked off.

[AgentZero]

Damn, my happiness is 12.5. Still, that's enough for my people to adore me, so it'll do for now.

[Will]

Once upon a time I was 23.21. Now it's down to 18.21, because of lost trades (one cancellation, one because of inactive account deletion).

Also, you might be interested to know that without any other modifiers, a +1 happiness is the same as +$2 citizen income. Which is the same as a $0.56/citizen tax boost at 28% taxation.

[GuyOfDoom]

Nice, so has anyone figured out the "optimal" tax rate?

[Beck]

Happiness is relative, you can't look at someone's high number and think you're lacking. It's a function of how large you are, ie. how much tech you have and what improvements you have (stadiums give you a big +3). The older nations with many improvements and high tech are achieving happiness in 60+ range. If you compare 3 week old nations with 3 week old nations or better yet 500 NS to 500 NS, you're more in the ballpark of how you're doing. I could make my happiness even higher if I lowered my Tax Rate from 28% (which is -7 happiness for me) but I wouldn't make as much money. And that my friends is where it's really at. Happiness is only part of the formula. People tend to focus too heavily on happiness level to the exclusion of making the most money possible.

[GuyOfDoom]

I know that Happiness factors into making money, which is why I was asking.