Jubilant Galaxy

[AngleWyrm]

There they were, twenty five planets, all of them Jubilant! Parades in the streets, lots of "Great day, isn't it?" and a general sense of well being towards their magnanimous leader, me.

I was annoyed.

Why are they ALL happy? Doesn't happiness become meaningless without sorrow?

So I began contemplating a bell curve. What if we could divide the colonies into categories like so:

05% Jubilant
15% Happy
60% Indifferent
15% Unhappy
05% Angry

Then anything I did in the form of treaties, war, technology that improves/impacts morale, etc could affect changes in the curve. Maybe one of my indifferent colonies switches to Unhappy. Or I build something on an Angry world that makes them move up to an Unhappy colony.

Maybe colonizing that world might involve wondering about the general impact of how pleasant/unpleasant it is. Can my race sustain another unpleasant world? Will they just become so miserable they deport?

[Suicide Junkie]

Huh, wha?
If you want your populations to be less happy, start abusing them more.

I do think it should be a diminishing returns thing, with going from happy->jubilant being far harder to achieve and maintain than indifferent->happy.
Some system where the further from indifferent the people are, the greater the restoring "force" is.

[AngleWyrm]

Evil is an amusing predicament, isn't it?

To expand and exterminate -- hardly a politically correct agenda. Therefore everyone who buys a 4X game is in some way performing the acts of a villain.

--
Coming to terms with my inner scumbag.

[Glyn]

Bell cures are the rules for mediocrity.


Underling, �Sir we have too many Jubilant planets!�
Ruler, �Sigh, We can�t have that glass one! After all happy people just make other people unhappy.�

[Ed Kolis]

LOL! Sounds like Atrocities' kind of rule! Or maybe the person who designed the crew quarters components in Adamant