Happiness question

[Pablo]

If my empire gets unhappy (for whatever reason) and I have some colony ships flying around, do the population on board of the colony ships get unhappy too (rioting)? Should I wait for some time (for my population to become happier) before colonizing planets? Thanks.

[StarBaseSweeper]

I am not 100% sure, but I think the population in teh cargio of the ship is unaffected by mood. They will get whatever mood on the planet they are drop to, and in case of new colony the value set in I think setting.txt file. (jubilant?).
In the contrary, colonize as much as possible

[Grandpa Kim]

No matter what your happiness is throughout the empire, any freshly created colony will start off happy. This is the default setting. If things are bad enough, the happiness can drop on the turn of creation and it will look like it started at another level. Conversely, it can spring to jubilant!

[Pablo]

the situation is bad enough that whenever I colonize a planet it riots from the first turn so I think I'd better wait till the overall happiness of my population increases...

Edit: will loading of the entire population of a rioting planet to a transporter and dropping them back on the planet the next turn get my people to become happy?

[ October 07, 2003, 10:23: Message edited by: Pablo ]

[Loser]

No, happiness is tied to the planet, not the population. Everyone added to any planet will have the same happiness.

The solution to happiness problems is Troops and Urban Pacification Centers (or Fate Shrines, or Medical Facilities, or Temporal Vacation Service). That and "Stop losing so much!"

'The people' are merciless judges.

[Grand Lord Vito]

Just two ships over the planets will add 20 to make them happier every turn if you are a peaceful race. If you are playing Bloodthirsty then you will have to have a lot of wars for them to be happy what is the other one xenophobic so if you have any treaties your people will be unhappy?