PBW Strategy Guide (Help Please)

[Asmala]

If you drop your happiness to 50%, you need only five troops to each planet to nullify the effect.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Asmala:
If you drop your happiness to 50%, you need only five troops to each planet to nullify the effect.

So the five troops nullifies the effect of dropping your happiness level, but what is the number of troops needed to account for battle losses? The five troop garrison will be the minimum level needed to keep the people happy when nothing bad is happening. But, for example, if at normal happiness levels your planet needs 20 troops to keep from rioting when things go badly, by lowering your happiness level you will need 25 troops, more then will fit on a tiny domed planet. I don't know the answer, I am simply asking if this has been taken into account.

[tesco samoa]

geo this is in context to the min max system that we have here.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
geo this is in context to the min max system that we have here.

I understand the context Tesco. My point is that I am not convinced that the risks of lowering your happiness characteristic are not worth the 800 racial points you get back for it. Unless you can show that there is an easy method to overcoming those risks I don't suggest incorporating such an idea into a generic min/max suggestion. Simply saying, "build five more troops on each planet" isn't going to work if there isn't room for five more troops.

At least if Fyron is going to add this he should put in a strongly worded warning that any sort of battle losses will potentially cause great havoc within the empire.

[Atrocities]

I for one never fiddle with the happiness or environmental settings. To risky in the event an enemy fleet takes one of your worlds.

Troops are great, but you need a whole hell of a lot of them, as well as ships in orbit, and UPC III to keep the peace if you use a lower happiness setting.

I agree, a strongy worded warning should be included with any info governing the reduction of happiness to gain points.

Basically put, playing with happiness is bad mojo IMHO.

[Fyron]

Funny that noone had any objections/suggestions when I first put this on the web some 2 months ago...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

that's because people spot problems based on time.