[Slynky]

Actually, it's worse than what they suggest. At least as far as my experience goes.

The question was what to do WHEN your planets riot. At that point, there is difficulty. Why" Because, usually, within one turn or two, all the planets in the same system riot. Therefore, there is little time to build a pac center. And IF the planet is rioting, you can't build anything...so no troops. I have even tried putting up a new colony and building a pac center as the first item...but usually, it never finishes before it riots with the other planets in the same system.

You are left with only a few choices:

1- Move in some ships and let them sit over the planet(s) altering the happiness level. This works well if there are no further incursions by enemy fleets. Although Asmala, the SE4 genius could offer more concrete formulas, my experience has been that if they have been rioting for, say, 4 turns, having a fleet over a planet for the same number of turns will make them better again. This is hard, of course, if you are fighting off an enemy.

2- Build a troop ship and drop troops on the rioting planets. 10 at a minimum. 20 if you have the time.

Prevention is the best thing to use. When I have some extra minerals but not many rads or orgs, I build troops on planets that are finished (and have no shipyards working). Troops take up mostly minerals and not much of anything else. Depending on how you designed them...sometimes, they are not even filled out all the way...but they seem to do the same thing...make planets happy to jubilent. Also, for (usually) 50K (and the follow-on research that is cheap), I take the time to research and build pac centers (probably much earlier than the average player). They usually pay for themselves by boosting all levels of production after a while.

So...there is my take. I'm not a scientific player but a bit better than average.