Stupid Universal Suffrage Question

[Aegis]

How effective is US at lowering war weariness? Are there any stats for it?

 

[Gato Loco]

I think it lowers all WW by one level (e.g. 0% instead of 25%, 25% instead of 50%). This means that a republic will take twice as long to get WW and get half as much during the first WW hit. In other words, it's like a secnd police station in every city. There's an article on WW in the war academy that mentions the effects of this wonder.

 

[sabo]

I might be way off base because I'm assuming this, but I always thought Universal will lower each city the amount a police station in that city would lower.. YES?? NO???

 

[Aegis]

So how important is US to players who like to wage wars in the Republic?

 

[sabo]

So how important is US to players who like to wage wars in the Republic?

it's important but it's all relative, if you're planning a mid-range or long war it can help quite a bit if you don't want to change gov's, other wise with short wars it really doesn't matter too much

Difficulty level plays a part too

 

[ANDL33]

Seriously though, Universal Sufferage. Yeah, I don't get it either.

 

[bingen]

According to this article: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/war_weariness.php

it reduces unhappy people by 1 when you have war weariness, so pretty useless. I still build it though, mostly because I can and to cut off the chances of a Theory of Evolution spillover.

 

[gunkulator]

Universal Suffrage is usually obtainable even if you start after the AI. The AI will start on it as soon as a city opens up. Since it comes with Industrialization, a human will rush a factory and/or coal plant first before starting the wonder. AI isn't smart enough to do that so it takes them forever to build it. It's effects are pretty crappy - as bingen said it's only useful to prevent a cascade to TOE.