He sounds like a guy that if they are not in-charge then they want to be. If so then he may be unchanging and not open to new ideas/concepts.

Give him a hint of some type.

Not that I wouldn't mind a slider either.  It doesn't even have to be in increments of 1%, 5% would work.  It seems to give more control, while actually not doing much other than the discrete buttons.  Only 5 options (plus the "initial condition" option) seems a little lacking.

It was there the whole time.  Try being nicer the next time you cannot find something.

I was looking for a tax slider on the economy screen which is where it should be but instead it's not a slider at all, not in the conventional sense, it's in the policies section and there's no percentages involved.  I'm playing a game as the Terrans right now and I haven't touched it in over 100 turns but it has to be there just in case you need it.    You never know. 

I am going to go ahead and state my wish for the Tax Slider to come back to game please.  Hope others agree with me.

A tax slider based on percentages is better, it gives more control over the loss of happiness if you have to raise it, it gives the player more control, you don't want to take big hits when all you may need is a a few credits or even just one to keep everybody relatively as happy as freaking possible while you wait to research a tech or build an 'Entertainment' district to 'cheer' everyone up.

I like that idea. make it adjustable only once a year without some kind of additional hit to happiness and/or economy. That would actuall bring the whole thing closer to real life. 

Just bring back the slider. No restrictions. You don't have to micro-manage it each turn if you do not want to.

I understand that some people feel compelled to.  I am one of them.  But I understand that I need to control myself and not get bogged down on everything.  So I would monkey with it some till I got what I feel is working.  Then I go away until I see it is just not working.  It is not unlike stopping yourself from eating the entire half-gallon of ice cream at one sitting.

I don't think it is wise or practical to try to design the game to prevent everyone from acting out each and every impulse.  And continually monkeying with a tax slider is just that.  It is practical to give people workable options so they don't have to act on their impulse, but it they choose to then they choose to.  It's just seems that the slider was good.. People don't have to change it by one percent each turn trying to get the perfect tax %.  It was not broken, and it was then fixed.  I feel it is now broken, and needs to be restored to it's previous form. Or at least give it more granularity, so you can change the tax rate in 3-5 percentage points increments.