Population of Annexed or currently razed Cities: Each citizen in an annexed city, or in a city being razed, generates 1.34 Unhappiness instead of the usual 1.

This Unhappiness, however, diminishes during the razing process, and disappears entirely once the city is destroyed.

Razing Captured Cities: Razing a city creates the same amount of Unhappiness as annexing a city.

This penalty can only be removed by constructing a Courthouse in the city.

Annexed Cities: Each annexed city in an empire produces more Unhappiness than a normal city, as detailed in the table below.

Puppet Cities: Each puppet city in an empire adds the same amount of Unhappiness that a normal city does.

This is also true for Specialists, despite their unhappiness being shown separately from that of the rest of the population. Each of a civilization's Citizens automatically generates +1 Unhappiness.

Population: A living person is an unhappy person.

Number of Cities: Each city in an empire adds Unhappiness as follows:.

There are several sources of Unhappiness. Unhappiness directly subtracts from Happiness, and increases as a civilization grows. On the other hand, sources of Global Happiness are Luxuries, Social Policies, etc., which all provide deeper, more meaningful reasons for your empire to be happy. The logic behind this distinction is sound: Sources of Local Happiness are the most common entertainment buildings (Circus, Colosseum, etc.), which provide shallow, low-level amusement for the masses. This means that if a city has 5 Population and sources of local happiness adding up to 8 Happiness, the actual amount that will be contributed to your empire's Happiness will be 5, not 8. The main difference is that while Global sources contribute to Happiness unconditionally, Local sources can only contribute up to the Population number of the respective city. Happiness sources are divided loosely into Local and Global.

Mercantile city-states: Each mercantile city-state provides +3 Global Happiness to each civilization with which it is at least Friends.

Natural wonders: Each natural wonder grants a permanent +1 Global Happiness bonus to all civs which have discovered it.

Common methods include granting Happiness from certain buildings and reducing the Unhappiness generated by Population. Social policies: Almost all social policy trees have some way of boosting a civilization's Happiness.Wonders: Many wonders provide varying amounts of (often Global) Happiness.Buildings: The Circus, Colosseum, Theatre, Zoo, and Stadium are the main options, but there are also some other choices, such as the Stone Works.Luxury resources: For every different luxury resource which a civilization has access to (through possessing an improved luxury resource, trading with another civ, or alliance with a city-state with access to the resource), the empire receives +4 Global Happiness.In order to counteract Unhappiness and continue an empire's growth, Happiness must be increased. Again, for the exact effects of Unhappiness in Brave New World, see below. Once a group of rebels spawns, another group will not appear for a while. The rebels are similar to Barbarians, but appear in groups. When Happiness drops to -20, the civilization's cities go into revolt, and rebels start appearing throughout the empire, based on the number of cities. A very unhappy empire does not grow at all, suffers a Production penalty, receives a nasty combat penalty (-33%) for all its units, and cannot train Settlers (though they can still use their existing Settlers to found new cities). In Brave New World, there are additional effects see below for more info.Ī civilization with Happiness of -10 or lower is very unhappy. An unhappy empire causes each city's Food surplus to be reduced by 75%, drastically reducing Population growth. We could say that such empires are well governed internally, although that doesn't necessarily mean that they will be successful or competitive.Ī civilization with Happiness below zero is unhappy. Happy civilizations grow as normal, and each turn's Happiness value is added to the empire's Golden Age counter. There are three levels of Happiness: happy, unhappy, and very unhappy.Īn empire with Happiness of zero or greater is considered happy.

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