Dumb questions about happiness...

[serpwidgets]

Ok, I've got a huge empire now, and it doesn't seem to matter what I do, my people will not be happy.

I've got a UPC III in every system, started out years ago with UPC I's and have kept them up to date, yet they are still going downhill, to where a couple of planets are now rioting (One has been on/off for at least a couple years now)

From what I've read, the UPCs don't stack, so I can't get anything out of building more of them, eh?

I've also been beating up on one of the other empires. I have a protectorate with one after I started taking their planets, and am taking over a few planets from another empire right now, yet my people are still almost all in the "angry" Category. The happiest I have is "Indifferent" and they're starting to go back downhill.

I don't have the cargo space to put 100 troops on every single planet, I don't have the time to build (and maintain) a huge fleet to sit over every single planet. This is starting to get stupid.

I've never seen this happen before, and this is the first game where I've even bothered building UPCs.

I'm trying to figure out if I took some stupid happiness type, but I can't even figure out which one I took, and if I could, I'd like to figure out how I can change that (by hex-editing an empire file or something, I presume) because this is just ridiculous.

I know I didn't take any default race points for or against happiness, so it's not that. All I am able to find is "Infantile, Scientists, Friendly." I don't recall if Friendly is a "happiness type."

I think I'm going to end up altering the UPC III in the file to have an increase of 6 or 9 instead of 3. It may be the easiest solution, but doesn't seem like the best one. And I'm not even sure if it'll work, because I swapped out the starnames file in the middle of the game but it's still using the default names, which I hate.

Any other ideas? (other than building troops?)