[Quikngruvn]

8. If you garrison a captured planet, how many troops do you need to keep the population from rioting? Is there some particular ratio of ships and troops to planet population that you need to have to be able to stop the rioting?

The effectiveness of troops and ships in orbit depends on your happiness type (peaceful, bloodthirsty, or neutral). From happiness.txt...

--*--
Population Happiness Levels:
Pop Anger Pct Description Res Mod
75 - 100 Rioting 0%
60 - 74 Angry 60%
45 - 59 Unhappy 80%
30 - 44 Indifferent 100%
15 - 29 Happy 120%
0 - 14 Jubiliant 140%

All values are in 10ths of a percent.

Peaceful:
Our Ship in Sector := -10
Our Troops on Planet := -2

Bloodthirsty:
Our Ship in Sector := -5
Our Troops on Planet := -2

Neutral:
Our Ship in Sector := 0
Our Troops on Planet := -2
--*--

It would look like it would take 52 troops to guarantee that a riot be quelled, but there are a whole bunch of other things that could affect the planet's happiness. (I'm not about to post the whole file, so you'll have to check for yourself. )

[edit] Math error. [/edit]

Quikngruvn

[ August 02, 2002, 06:36: Message edited by: Quikngruvn ]