Happiness System

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Is it possible to incorporate a happiness system that effects how you can collect taxes? Maybe also effecting your production and research.

 

For example lets say you have taxes at 50% and only 60% of your population is happy.

Now you have some sort of resource that makes your population happy and you collect 60% taxes and your population is still 60% happy.

 

 Better yet, the happiness of your planets should effect your warships and planets by allowing them to turn over to the enemy influcence or into ordinary barbarians/pirates.  

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Morale/happiness already is tied to taxes:  more taxes = more unhappiness.  So, in essence, getting more happiness means you can tax higher.

Happiness of planets should probably NEVER impact ships.  Overall happiness of the empire, yeah, maybe, but it would a PITA to try and compute happiness of ships that weren't in a specific planet's orbit.  And, logically, why should the happiness of a planet I'm within influence radius of have any bearing on whether that ship flips/goes pirate/etc.?  

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting trims2u, reply 1
Morale/happiness already is tied to taxes:  more taxes = more unhappiness.  So, in essence, getting more happiness means you can tax higher.
End of trims2u's quote

That's how it worked in GalCiv 1 and 2, but we don't have taxes anymore, and approval isn't currently in GalCiv 3 either. Also, Frogboy already said this:

Quoting Frogboy, reply 52

I think most will prefer the revise due conomics which are derived from population. Factories and research centers magnify production but they don't generate it unto themselves anymore. Hence in such a system approval as a population control becomes really problematic IMO.

i think if approval returns it'll be to add a new dynamic (for instance, to expand on the political element of game play where trying to undermine each other's governments become a strategy). Hence, approval ratigs have too much future potential to be used up as a soft population growth counter.

End of Frogboy's quote

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