Unhappiness numbers don't add up

[Crai-Crai]

My investors are unhappy. I've fulfilled all their basic needs and luxury needs. They have a -1 for pollution, and a -10 for something vague like "effects." The happiness effects list shows they have a total of +24 on the positive side and -11 on the negative side, which to me, based on my recollection of Grade 2 math skills, comes to +13, but which the game calculates as -2. Are there hidden variables that don't show up in the list? Variables that I can't do anything about?

[Chaosium]

Do you use propaganda? They get a happiness debuff whenever you use it (even though you can counteract it with propaganda articles that yield more than their debuff lol)

[Crai-Crai]

Publicado originalmente por Chaosium:

Do you use propaganda? They get a happiness debuff whenever you use it (even though you can counteract it with propaganda articles that yield more than their debuff lol)

Yes I have been using propaganda. That must be it. Thanks!

It does seem a bit unfair to me that the paper can print stuff that's barely true, causing riots and unhappiness everywhere, and if I try to cover it up, it causes riots and unhappiness everywhere.

Examples of "barely true" would include: War declared on us! (First of all, not my fault, and secondly, I got a cease-fire 2 seconds later.) Or, "Beer runs out!" and there's maybe 2 worker houses on the island and I just haven't had time in the last 60 seconds to get the beer chain up and running.

Anyway, thanks for the answer.

[Chaosium]

Yes the press can be irritating at times, I've always thought that there shouldn't be a "X product is out of stock aaahhhh!!!!" on islands that never had access to it in a first place