Ancillaries - Traits that are unbalanced

[RabidSheepLegion]

I just got torturer trait and it increased public order by 3 but also decreased it by 1, can't it just be increase by 2 instead of showing 1 decrease as it gets cancelled out anyway. I've seen others like this, maybe we should post a list of these kinds?

[bɑne]

If you had a official torturer in your town - breaking your fingers every time you did something wrong - wouldn't that cause a feeling of unrest?
Which would be chanceled out at the same time because of better behaviour due to not wanting your fingers broken? It has both results, I see no need to add them together.

[Meneth]

AFAIK, many of the modifiers don't only increase/decrease public order.
For example, law also decreases corruption.
It's quite possible that the unrest has some effect beyond reducing public order, therefore it should be kept.

[preachercheeze]

you can have cumulative effects of public order... If you have a torturer there will be more public order BUT the unrest is brewing... if the leader/governor later raises taxes and/or get other rather naughty traits, the negative public order will add up and a riot will ensue....

yes, you COULD just add positive public order, but the negative PO is to show that there is miscontempt in the settlement by the governance... and, as I just stated, the unrest factors keeps increasing, the torturer will NOT be enough...

[RabidSheepLegion]

didn't see it from that point of view, makes sense now