[Slick]

Originally posted by couslee:
well, the game shows you to be incorrect on that. One of my angry planets just went rioting. I did have 10 police troops on the planet, and 1 combat ship sentried in orbit. there are also 2 colony ships, but they just arrived the previous turn and are only passing through. Based on what your saying, the happiness factor should not be heading in a negative direction.
(The surrendered race in question is the Bobroba States if any is curious).
The only thing I can think of that would send this planet in a negative direction is my trade treaty with another race. Since the race description states "warriors" I am assuming they are bloodthirsty.

I am correct on that. Check your .txt files and you will find that having alien population on your planet will cause a happiness addition of 20 (which is in the unhappy direction) and each of your troops on your planet will cause a happiness addition of -2 (which is in the good direction) so 10 troops exactly cancel out the effect of alien population on the planet. That is the answer to the question you asked.

Now, for the reason why you still are having happiness problems. There are several other happiness modifiers which can be found in the FAQ which I stated before or in the AI happiness text files. Change is not instantaneous either and there is a maximum amount it can change per turn.

I am not.... repeat NOT, going to re-read a 50 page thread every time I have a question. I didn't get this game to read and re-read a thread for hours, I got it to play the darn game.

If you choose not to read the faq's out there, expect to not understand what is going on. This is a game that is complex and is not learned quickly. There are a lot of people who put in lots of time and energy doing testing and writing these faq's. It is organized with a table of contents so that you don't have to read the whole thing every time. And it is not 50 pages (yet ) If you are too lazy to look up your answers in a stickified post with a table of contents, then you might find that we might be too lazy to answer your questions. For the number of hours I have done testing and adding to the FAQ, I find this attitude insulting. And I have done far less than most of the veterans here.

Slick.