Am I the only person who thinks the Emotionless racial trait is a bit pricey?

[Drake]

I think 1000 points for emotionless would actually be reasonable.

One of the problem with taking emotionless for strategic reasons is that it doesn't act as 'emotionless' but rather makes your happiness state unchangable (I haven't tested this with 1.30, but no mention of a change to this is made in the history).

Another reason against taking it would be that there are better ways to improve your happiness. If you're seriously concerned about it for production reasons, either spend points on increasing happiness, or better yet pick temporal. I'd personally go with a decrease to about 80%, take temporal, and lose 1000 pts while picking up facilities that are twice as effective at increasing happiness, twice as effective at building things, and more options for weapons. Balance that against 3000(!) points for emotionless, and I just don't see the sense in taking emotionless.