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THE BELLA UPDATE

by Hazed

Our Illustrious Leader, Bella, the green-skinned Goddess of Fed, is continuing to slave away on the code for dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, it's taking her a lot longer than she intended to write this code.

The problem is that dissatisfaction is a very complex concept, and it ties into lots of other things. It is affected by infrastructure builds, some of which increase the unrest of your citizens and others reduce it; some builds cause problems which can only be offset by particular types of build; and so on.

Then add in the matter of planetary workthing populations - which are currently not being calculated correctly and need to be included in this round of coding - and the whole thing turns into a large coding project.

Bella moaned to me recently that the reason she has been having problems is that there are several different ways she can write the code, all of which have their advantages and disadvantages, and there is no one clear and obvious path to follow. Consequenly, she's made several false starts which she has had to abandon - the current disarray seen in the population figures is the result of one of those attempts.

She has now decided on the best approach to the problem and has started coding in earnest, but there's still a whole heap to be done so don't hold your collective breaths!

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