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Originally posted by Jon Brave:
What about these 3 points from a previous post I'd still like answered, please?
Seems to me then that if a planet has reached max. pop. there's no longer any point in improving conditions as this only leads to more growth, not more production? (Unless of course you're intending to ship people off in future).
Why should I bother with biological weapons or climate harmers? By the time I've managed to get my bombers close enough to a planet without getting shredded, I just bomb (napalm?) them out of existence. Am I missing a useful feature here?
It has been said that happiness depends on your initial race's "orientation". My colonies seem to vary from Indifferent to Jubiliant [sic]. I haven't done any conquering (just originally empty planets); no special events. So why the difference? And is there anything I can build that would improve this? For example, is an Urban Pac. Centre only for really miserable planets or planets you have conquered or have mixed pops? If I want all my plebs to be really happy with me what do I have to do?
1) Moving population is one of the keys to production bonuses. Hopefully the patch will help the AI do this better. This is a very important micromanagement way to outproduce your enemies.
2) Try invading or even (horrors) asking them to surrender (if this doesn't make the game too easy for you). That way you get all the production and the population to micromanage as in step 1 above.
3) Many of the happiness adding and subtracting events are system or sector dependant so even if your population as a whole has the same happiness type the same events haven't happened to all of them. Urban pacification centers are great for all your systems. There is one racial facility that is better the temporal vacation center.
If you plan on capturing alien planets a facility that increases happiness is a must.