Colonizing w/ conquored population

[Oggy ben Doggy]

OK, I mostly pounded a Methane breathing race to rubble, and captured a planet of theirs. Then I gleefully made a bunch of colonizing ships, and started colonizing Methane worlds (I breath oxygen)

Everything was fine and dandy but then they started rioting, first the conquored worlds, then the colonized ones? this is normal?

I know this has been said before, but if I build units, it'll calm them down? Some of the worlds are only angry, I'm trying to head them off before they riot.

[Hydraa]

Any race you control other than your own will eventually go to riot. You need to do things that will make your peoples happy according to your happiness type (peaceful - colonize, bloodthirsty - win a battle, neutral - they don't like aliens and don't like much that you do.)

Other methods are the Urban pac center, temporaral vaction service, medical center( not enough but will slow the anger).

Troops will help all happiness types to 'encourage' thier subjects to be happy

[This message has been edited by Hydraa (edited 27 March 2001).]

[rdouglass]

...and of course, parking a fleet in orbit...

[Hydraa]

Parking a ship or fleet in orbit will not help (or hurt) a Neutral happiness type race. They get mad at the empire for just building ships in the first place.

[Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]

Hydraa, if I mix populations on a planet, will I get the weighted average of their happyness or best/worst?

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Resistence is futile.

[Hydraa]

With limited testing it appears that if your own race is the majority race then you use your races natural decrease else if your race is not in the majority then the other race natural decrease takes affect.
I did not fully test this out so I don't know if it is a one or the other or a effect based on percentage of population yet.