Happiness confusion

[Xrati]

What's your racial setting for happiness? If you reduced it to 50 your race won't like anything you do except for what AT suggests, genecide!!!

[Alneyan]

Not quite: 50 happiness will only increase your trouble getting your guys and gals happy, but it will not lower your happiness, so you will not get insta rioting. Neutral races have that one advantage: they are slightly less likely to be unhappy than the others. Even a Peaceful race needs less than 45 happiness, if memory serves, to start having happiness going down to Unhappy and below while nothing happens.

Oh, and be careful when signing agreements: in a game where I took over a neutral, I got several alliances on a single turn, and almost killed my Empire because of that... They all rioted since they obviously didn't want any alliance. *Sighs*

[Xrati]

Yes I found out about that one the hard way. I offered a non-intercourse treaty and when accepted my happiness went down the tubes! I was playing a 'peaceful' setting. I just broke the treaty and went back having none with them, and the happiness went up.

[Starhawk]

Well I am a neutral in Devnull and I have been at war for about 40 years now (one way or another) and I've only had to deploy a few hundred Federal Security troops (I modded in a 2 kt trooper) per system to get the few rioting bastards under control though my biggest problems have been from this race I recently "annexed" and the buggers apparently liked their old empire better because riots have broken out on all but 3 of their planets lol