Approval Ratings

[massagefellow]

Having trouble with this--recommendations?

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not sure what you're asking. If you mean the "Approval Rate" or whatever it is in the Demographics window, I wouldn't worry about that, that metric has been full of crap since Civ1. I'm sure there's some mathematical formula, and the code-divers could probably tell you how to maximize it, but I just laugh whenever I see that number.

However, if you're referring to diplomacy, please give us some specifics, because that's a whole big complicated animal.

 

[SyntaxError]

Happy / (Happy + Anger)

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Approval Ratings in the Demographics are nothing to worry about, as they do not affect anything. I have always noticed though that it tends to be higher when there is no rioting and your cities are celebrating "We love the [insert leader type] Day!"

 

[damerell]

Happy / (Happy + Anger)

Which (like Life Expectancy) means that high values are bad - you've probably wasted effort on accumulating happiness or health which you aren't using.

 

[traius]

Which (like Life Expectancy) means that high values are bad - you've probably wasted effort on accumulating happiness or health which you aren't using.

Exactly. There is nothing wrong with bottom approval rating, as long as you don't have angry citizens everywhere.

 

[massagefellow]

Exactly. There is nothing wrong with bottom approval rating, as long as you don't have angry citizens everywhere.

Im going for diplomacy victory though

 

[damerell]

Im going for diplomacy victory though

To which the approval rating makes no difference whatsoever.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

The approval rate is supposed to be the percentage of your own citizens that like the job you're doing as leader. Whether the AIs "approve" of you is a whole different ballgame.