Fixing the AI Diplomancy bug in BM

If you have troops on your planets, about 30+, you should be able to combat any unhappiness effect.

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happiness works? is that only BM?? my people are always jubilant and i don't have any troops.
do platforms count?

Only troops will affect happiness levels.

The Balance Mod happiness file is a bit less forgiving than stock and I had to tone it down a bit in v1.11, because certain races could easily spiral into a full riot state around 50-100 turns in.

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that seems crappy.

so troops could be useful afterall
so how does happiness work?? is it constantly doing down or what?

In the data folder look at Happiness.txt (just the first entry, the other ones are not activated). It provides the values for various events/conditions that manipulate happiness.

There are also all sorts of happiness modifiers through gov't or society types, plus the three racial traits for naturally happy, naturally depressed and emotionless.

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thanks

Captain, When are we going to see 1.11 of the balance mod as I am itching to start a new game.

I hope to have it ready for tomorrow (Thursday).

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The BM makes you research Recreation. After all what would life be without the Red Socks or the Patriots?

Hi don't know if this is the place to mention my ideas but here I go:

Firstly thankyou very much for the time and effert you put into this mod. It is GREAT!!!

Today one of my captains flew into a astroidfield to hide but he forgot to check the density of the astroids. A stray astroid went in the one side of the ship and exited on the other side. It went right through both the crew compartments.

My display showed that there were 0 survivors on the ship (Crew 0/100). That didn't stop me from ordering the ship to come home for repairs though and wasn't I surprised when the ship actualy listed to me without any crew... :~)

I know I can tell my self that there were maybe a few guys busy in the engine compartments at the time of the accident and manage to steer the wreck back home but is'nt it possible to make the game so that if all your crew compartments get destroyed that you at least have a skelaton crew left that was on duty in other parts of the ship and if that can't be done can't you just make that the ships do not move if they have no crew in them and no computer core.

I'm sure you catch my line of thinking...

Then there is a few extra research ideas I'd like to see

I would like that you can't just colonise any planet that is the same type as your home planet. I'd like to see a research option where you research to colonise heavier gravity planets or planets with high radiation. I mean that is something that even masters of orion had in the year "way back then". And you can also do the same for other breatheble planets... not so that your nation can breath the air but just to colonize them. For instance if we should try to land on Venus we are going to need a lot of extra research to land there with the extra heat and air density and ways to somehow convert the carbon dioxide to oxigen for the people in the domes.(the green house effect does help though but not for high reproductive beings:-)

Maybe I'm just to technical but from a perspective of knowing nothing about programing I think It can be done..... Can't it?.....

Having 0 crew does have a severe effect on movement etc (I should know, I love bio-weapons that wipe crew) but did your repair planet happen to be within the same turn's reach?

Also, I don't think we have the coding tools to mod all those extra technicalities. We shove everything under "this game starts in the 25th Century, not 21st Century. Let us presume they've solved all those problems ahead of time and were waiting on suitable propulsion tech to catch up."

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