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EARTHDATE: November 11, 2007

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HOW TO REDUCE DISAFFECTION

by the House of Doz

The reintroduction of taxes generated such a passionate response, that many players overlooked the other piece of code that was placed back into service, planetary disaffection. Now, each day, we are treated to a report of another planet that has experienced rioting and suffered huge losses as a result of planetary disaffection. As a public service, the House of Doz wishes to make available to Planet Owners its recommended strategy of builds that will reduce disaffection, and increase production and efficiency.

The first build we recommend is to BUILD STARBUCKS. The resulting influx of caffeine will provide one production point on all industrial commodities, and increase efficiency by 1 percent across the exchange. There is no limit to the number of times you can make this build; in fact, it seems that it is encouraged to build a Starbucks on every street corner. Ultimately, the high price of a simple cup of Joe will begin to create dissatisfaction among the population, and another build is required.

We recommend that you next BUILD MICROBREWERY. This build will reduce the disaffection created by building all the Starbucks. However, you are limited to only 3 Microbreweries (I know, but I don't make the rules). In addition, for each brewery, efficiency will drop by 5.2 percent (3.5 percent in some states and 7 percent in the UK). To offset the drop in efficiency, we recommend that you BUILD REHAB HOSPITAL. This will bring the efficiency back up, but will increase planetary unhappiness by 1% due to one portion of the population continually harping on the rest of the population about the vices of drinking.

To compensate for the increased conflicts among the population, we recommend that you BUILD LAW FIRM. Attorneys will now be able to assist the population in suing each other in order to recover their damages both real and perceived. This build will reduce disaffection as the population will come to resent the attorneys more than the Planet's administration. However, in order to cope with the increased laws enacted, Taxes will go up by 5%. We therefore recommend that you BUILD CPA FIRM. This will reduce taxes by 40%. However, the increased amount of paperwork, dry wooden personalities, and risk of audits, will raise disaffection by 5%.

To reduce the increased disaffection, we recommend that you BUILD RED LIGHTDISTRICT. This will reduce disaffection completely; however, efficiency will go down. If more than one district is built, we recommend that you BUILD CLINIC to reduce infection. We also recommend at this time that you BUILD CASINO because, why the hell not. If you build 4 feeder Casinos, then you can BUILD VEGAS. A Vegas build will allow you to purchase a marriage registry, and with the Law Firm Build you can purchase a divorce registry.

To compensate for the decreased efficiency, we recommend that you BUILD EXPRESSWAY. This will increase worker efficiency 1% as the commuting time will decrease. To offset the disaffection that will result from being stuck in traffic, we recommend that you BUILD EXPRESSWAY BYPASS. This will increase efficiency an additional 1%. If you have an increased population from Hospital and Family Allowances, then the Expressway will not offset the disaffection since it too will be clogged with traffic.

If disaffection continues to be a problem, we suggest one of two builds. First, you can BUILD GESTAPO. This will completely eliminate disaffection; however 10 percent of your population will disappear in the middle of the night. For this reason, we recommend that you instead BUILD ICE CREAM SHOP, because who could be disaffected if they had a nice bowl of ice cream.


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