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Happiness, , is a measure of your citizen's contentment. A happy population is easier to manage, while an unhappy population provides negative effects. Some happiness is gained (or lost if your citizens are unhappy) each turn. Once you acquire enough happiness a 10 turn Golden Age begins for you.

UnhappinessEdit

The main sources of unhappiness are:

• Number of people: The more people belong to your civilization the more amusement they demand to keep happy. (-1 for every citizen, 1.34 for every occupied citizen*)
• Number of cities: The more cities you have the unhappier your population becomes.
  • -3 for every city*
  • -6* for every annexed city until you build a courthouse in them
  • less than -3* for every Puppetted city (needs verification).

.* Values are from default settings (As of this time, all levels use the values above except for Large (80% of the above values) and Huge (60% of the above values). This affects both population and city unhappiness equally)

There are two levels of unhappiness: "unhappy" and "very unhappy". An unhappy population does not grow nearly as fast (1/4 the speed) as a content one but there are no other negative effects. However, once your population reaches -10 unhappiness per turn it becomes very unhappy. A very unhappy civilization does not grow at all, cannot build settlers at all and its military units get a nasty combat penalty (-33%).

The December 2010 patch also added yet another twist to unhappiness. If an empire reaches -20 happiness, it goes into revolt, and rebels start appearing throughout the empire, based on the number of cities. The rebels are similar to barbarians, but they appear in groups. Once a group of rebels appear another group will not appear for a while.

HappinessEdit

Sources of happiness:

• Natural wonders
• Luxury resources
• Certain buildings
• Certain wonders
• Certain social policies

• adopting Order generates 1 happiness per city