[tbontob]

Hi Q

Originally posted by Q:

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
By default, native populations have an anger decrease, while all enemy populations have an anger increase. They're not keeping their own characteristics, though; you could mod a special happiness trait for your race, and even standard alien races would follow your happiness type.

It is a little bit more complicated as explained in a other topic on happiness:
The standard negative value of happiness decrease for your races moves the happiness towards indifferent. The standard positive value of happiness decrease for foreign races moves their happiness toward extremes, either angry or jubiliant. You could call this a choleric behaviour.
And your are right if the two values of the natural decrease are identical the happiness of your race and foreign races you captured will be identical.

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In the thread "Happiness...driving me to dispair", I paraphrased Q's research on a empires native population as follows:

Hmmmmmmmmm....

So what I hear Q telling us about the natural increase/decrease in happpiness is:

If your planet is
a) Indifferent
no change in the happiness state of the planet.
b) Happy or Jubilant
-2% change in the happiness of the planet.
c) Rioting, Angry or Unhappy
+2% change in the happiness of the planet.

The above is based on how we mortals view happiness (i.e. the greater the percentage, the greater the happiness)

Using MM's viewpoint where sublime happiness is 0%, the arithmetic signs above would have to be reversed.

Essentially, all things being equal, the native population of a empire will move towards an "indifferent" happiness state.

Q says this changes with a alien population. He seems to be saying there is no self-centering process with an captured population of an alien race. Y/N?

If yes, then in a peaceful race, wouldn't the two processes cancel each other out and all things being equal wouldn't the state of the alien population be either "happy" or "unhappy" but would not proceed any further to either extreme (i.e. Jubilant or rioting)?

Of course, the situation is different if one is running a "bloodthirsty race" or "neutral race" as the two processes do not cancel each other out.

Editing note: The 2 processes for a Peaceful empire are:
1) Natural decrease - own empire (as discribed above.) which is 20 points or 2%
2) Natural decrease - others which is 20 points or 2%

#1 above changes for a "bloodthirsty race" being 2 points or .2% and for a "neutral race" being 50 points or 5%

[ August 31, 2002, 14:27: Message edited by: tbontob ]