It would be really nice if you could figure out how much your stability is going to drop before absorbing a city. The UI doesn't make it immediately clear how badly your stability might be affected. It's also not clear how to do the math on this if you wanted to do it the hard way.

jooglyp wrote:

It would be really nice if you could figure out how much your stability is going to drop before absorbing a city. The UI doesn't make it immediately clear how badly your stability might be affected. It's also not clear how to do the math on this if you wanted to do it the hard way.

If not mistaken is -20 stability per territory

I pretty sure they meant getting a tooltip showing the difference without having to check manually.

Yeah, it's a clean -20 per territory, but the actual calculation is much more complicated than that:

• -20 per territory of the absorbed city, including the former city centre
• -10 on average per district within the absorbed city
• Complete loss of the absorbed city's infrastructure benefits and luxuries through "inefficiencies" ^^;

I think once in the history of the game have I absorbed a city and the stability went up (this was pre-TRW) and I'm not sure why it happened.

Cure_off wrote:

I pretty sure they meant getting a tooltip showing the difference without having to check manually.

Yes yes i know, but I wanted to share a bit, or at least the basic numbers, so the player can something in mind when deciding