Population not happy... and I'm MAD!!

[Hotfoot]

If you're a dictator, why in god's name aren't you using the peace of the gun?

Seriously, Troops stationed on planets improve happiness, as to fleets in orbit around colonies. If you have temporal tech, there's temporal facilities that increase happiness.

-Hotfoot
"It's all been done."

[Saxon]

Someone wrote that Neutral is a poor choice, as your people get grumpy about almost everything. He suggested that either peace loving bunnie kissers or war mongering bunnie eaters were easier to please.

Another person outlined how he build units with no guns or shields. They are cheap and still count towards pacifying your population. Don’t do any good in an invasion, which isn’t usually a problem.

[Gorgo]

Neutral population types like non-intercourse-treaties - makes their happiness rise significantly. They are not into changes, so staying with the same treaty could also be a clever move.

[Phoenix-D]

"Seriously, Troops stationed on planets improve happiness, as to fleets in orbit around colonies."

No! Bad idea! Neutral gets mad at EVERTHING. Go check the happyness file. The only thing that calms them down are No Treaty, Non-intercourse, and the passage of time. PITA.

Phoenix-D

[Q]

Yes the neutral type happiness is suicidal if you don't modify the file! And the name "neutral" is incorrect, it should be xenophobic (as a Swiss I should know what neutral really means ).
So either you modify the happiness file to balance better the different types (if I am not completely wrong this can be done even for an ongoing game), or never choose this type again.

[Commander G2]

You really must look at the file HAPPINES.TXT to see what the modifiers are for a neutral race. Only two diplimatic changes help a neutral: Breaking a treating or non intercourse. All other status give you a negative hit. A neutral player should always establish non intercourse before something like Trade and Research. What ever you do, do not increment your status one stage at a time: Trade, Trade & REs, Mil Alliance, Partnership.

Neutrals have a natural recovery rate higher than other races. The are as someone said, Xenophobic when you look at what you should not do. Even winning battles makes Neutrals unhappy while it makes peaceful races happy. Neutral is better in a game with very vew players. Large games (many races), favor the other two heavily.

If you play neutral, you should consider researching troops and psychology right away to get some positive modifers.

[CW]

I'm playing this game with a full-tech start, and my partner happens to be Phoenix-D. I don't think you can modify the happiness.txt file in the middle of a PBW game can you? That's cheating! So is LOOKING at the file... but guess what? I'm going to take a look at it!