Happiness and Income

[Lord Saladin]

What's the difference between increased happiness and increased income? Isn't +1 happiness the same as +$2.00? Likewise, isn't -2 happiness and minus $1.00 the same as -1 happiness and minus $3.00?

[Viluin]

1 happiness equates to $2.00 if you have a perfect environment. Sadly you will never have a perfect environment due to radiation, so $2.00 is slightly better than 1 happiness.

[Duncan King]

It depends on what your happiness is and what you make. One happiness is 2-3 dollars depending upon certain stats in your nation. It's usually better to take a dollar loss than a happiness one, unless they're obviously not equal.

[Lord Saladin]

I just got 2 opposite answers.

[enderland]

Whenever you see +2$ and +1 happiness they are essentially the same. Happiness is slightly reduced by environment however, so instead of giving +2$ it is more like +1.80$ or such.

It depends on what your happiness is and what you make. One happiness is 2-3 dollars depending upon certain stats in your nation. It's usually better to take a dollar loss than a happiness one, unless they're obviously not equal.

With respect to events:

For a positive event, +2$ > +1 happiness

For a negative event, -1 happiness > -2$

[raskull]

One happiness is 2-3 dollars depending upon certain stats in your nation.

Right, but these same modifiers apply to income as well. So $2.00 isn't actually worth $2.00 after modifiers either.

Whenever you see +2$ and +1 happiness they are essentially the same. Happiness is slightly reduced by environment however, so instead of giving +2$ it is more like +1.80$ or such.

This. You can essentially disregard the modifiers when dealing with events, and just treat 1hp as slightly less than $2.00.