Dumb questions about happiness...

[serpwidgets]

I'm not losing any battles, I'm winning them. I have a large defense force set up on the "fronts" (two systems on the edge where they keep bringing in a few cruisers at a time to attack, and lose.)

I don't get any other Messages about anything happening, regarding happiness.

I could see why those two systems might be unhappy, since there are almost constantly enemy ships in the system, but the rest of the empire, too? Shrug...

I'll try taking a look at the happiness.txt file... Ok, I've changed all of them to match the "peaceful" one, which is what I'm pretty sure I used to take every game prior to this.

It would be nice if I did get Messages such as "there has been a new colony established at [planet] and people are pissed about that!" ;-)

Also, if I have a protectorate over someone and they ask for a trade alliance, I assume this would end the protectorate treaty, right? (They keep asking, I keep ignoring them, hehe.)