Environmental conditions have NO affect on happiness whatsoever. They never have (save maybe in an early beta, which I can not speak for, not being a beta tester

). The manual is misleading about this. Go make a map with some planets with 0 conditions (deadly), and colonize them. They dont get angry over it. Their happiness will slowly decrease over time due to natural per turn decreases, but that is all. Make some Optimal and some Mild planets as base cases.
[ September 06, 2003, 21:15: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]