Explain this for me

There seems to be a happiness bug with the stock files and sometimes the lack of resources bug tends to strike but I haven't figured out in what conditions that it does yet. I can't check though until I get home.

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Ya, seems to be pretty buggy, I hope the final release is alot less so.

I remember having a similar problem in SEIV. I solved it by moving a number of ships into orbit, for each ship in orbit it increases the happiness level (Depending on your race i think though)

The Happiness bug is a major bug that I wish we could fix even in this demo!!

Happiness is backwards for me, the unhappy trait makes planets happy.

I'am testing that in my next game by setting the happiness to -50 to see if that gives a good or bad result.
If the happiness trait was work correctly then that should make all my planets very unhappy, and if it is backwards then it will make them happy (and most likely keep them there).
I will let you know.

Assuming that the pacification center and troop bonuses aren't ALSO working in reverse..

Setting the happiness to -50 did indeed improve the happiness of the population.
I had no Happiness problems sense setting the happiness trait to -50 that suggests to me that happiness is indeed backwards.
It may be a simple as the sign of the number be wrong or it could be more complex than that.
But it does seem if you have a positive happiness trait it makes it harder to keep your population happy and if you have a negative happiness trait it makes it easier to keep them happy.
Definitively NOT what we want.

It's an interesting observation about real-life though isn't it....
Those who appear to be happy often aren't deep down, and vice-versa. And we all know how Urban Pacification Centres would go down on Earth

But yes, definitely a bug.
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Just because the government thinks of it as an 'urban pacification center' doesn't mean that it's not really a shopping mall, a sports stadium, or even an entire city like Las Vegas. It just has to be an opiate for the masses in order to acheive the desired results. I personally think that we love our 'urban pacification centers'

An 'urban pacification centers' is not necessarily what the population would see it as.

I can thinks of LOTS of things to pacify me... bars, SEV, a club, etc etc

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.