OUCH! PLANETS ANGRY. PLEASE HELP!

gwmarks · #1 March 23rd, 2001, 05:42 PM

I have a nice collection of 6 planets on turn 9. But they have all turned angry. I'm just now beginning to research troops, but that will take 5 turns or so.

Does anyone have advice for me?

Has anyone figured out just how happiness works and what affects it?

I've read the manual, but it doesn't help much. 1) I have good relations with three players; 2) no battles yet, and no losses. 3) I'm producing ships like crazy.
The manual says that each of these should increase happiness, but I've gone from happy to angry in just a few turns.

Nitram Draw · #2 March 23rd, 2001, 06:05 PM

Wow your race is be one ungrateful bunch

Mine usually wait 40-50 turns before they get pissed at me.
What type of people are you, peacful, bloodthirsty or neutral. Each one reacts a little different to treaties, ships, colonies etc.
You can build an urban pacification center in each system, this will usually do the job.

DirectorTsaarx · #3 March 23rd, 2001, 06:10 PM

Which "Happiness Type" did you select for your empire? The "Bloodthirsty" and "neutral" happiness types get angry when you make treaties.

All happiness types tend to get upset about other empires' ships and colonies in your systems.

I usually just build Urban Pacification Centers (or Temporal Vacation Facilities, if I've taken Temporal Tech as a racial trait) in every system. It's too difficult to keep the people happy without those facilities.

Hydraa · #4 March 23rd, 2001, 06:50 PM

I guess you took the neutral happiness type. It has a little better natural increase for happiness but almost everything you do is negative happiness. Including colonizing a world, any battle in system regardless of outcome, your ships in system or sector have zero influence on happiness, enemy ships are negative

Bloodthirsty also have a less happiness decrease for colonizing

Suicide Junkie · #5 March 23rd, 2001, 07:57 PM

Suggestion: Ships in orbit will improve happiness. Perhaps you could build a bunch of escorts, park them in orbit and mothball them so they don't cost maintenance?

gwmarks · #6 March 23rd, 2001, 08:09 PM

Thanks for the comments. This is still a bit weird.

I'm neutral. There are no colonies or other races in my home system, and just one allied ship in my second system.

I had no idea that just about everything you do as neutral negatively affects happiness. I don't see this in the manual!

The idea of producing and mothballing ships is intriguing. Are you sure that a mothballed ship increases happiness?

Does anyone know the relative impact of a orbiting ship versus troops?

How many troops would you put on a planet?