Colonizing w/ conquored population

[Oggy ben Doggy]

OK, I mostly pounded a Methane breathing race to rubble, and captured a planet of theirs. Then I gleefully made a bunch of colonizing ships, and started colonizing Methane worlds (I breath oxygen)

Everything was fine and dandy but then they started rioting, first the conquored worlds, then the colonized ones? this is normal?

I know this has been said before, but if I build units, it'll calm them down? Some of the worlds are only angry, I'm trying to head them off before they riot.

[Hydraa]

Any race you control other than your own will eventually go to riot. You need to do things that will make your peoples happy according to your happiness type (peaceful - colonize, bloodthirsty - win a battle, neutral - they don't like aliens and don't like much that you do.)

Other methods are the Urban pac center, temporaral vaction service, medical center( not enough but will slow the anger).

Troops will help all happiness types to 'encourage' thier subjects to be happy

[This message has been edited by Hydraa (edited 27 March 2001).]

[rdouglass]

...and of course, parking a fleet in orbit...

[Hydraa]

Parking a ship or fleet in orbit will not help (or hurt) a Neutral happiness type race. They get mad at the empire for just building ships in the first place.

[Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]

Hydraa, if I mix populations on a planet, will I get the weighted average of their happyness or best/worst?

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Resistence is futile.

[Hydraa]

With limited testing it appears that if your own race is the majority race then you use your races natural decrease else if your race is not in the majority then the other race natural decrease takes affect.
I did not fully test this out so I don't know if it is a one or the other or a effect based on percentage of population yet.

[Q]

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Originally posted by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz:
Hydraa, if I mix populations on a planet, will I get the weighted average of their happyness or best/worst?

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I may be wrong, but I remember quite a time ago to have read that if you have different races on a planet they will get very angry!
Anyway if you mix races which breathe different atmospheres you will only get a dome colony. So I never mix the races on my planet.

[Oggy ben Doggy]

that happens if you start with a dome colony, then add the population that breathes the atmosphere and take away the other pop? Does the dome go away?

[Hydraa]

The dome is 'raised' or 'lowered' based on if there is any unit of a race there that breathes a different atomsphere.
If you have 7999 units on a huge gas giant and add 1 unit of a race that does not breathe the atomsphere. The dome goes up and max facilities and populations limits are reduced.

It is only base on having a different atomsphere race on the planet. No build time or delay in raise or lowering. (Unless you are in s simultaneous game and can not tell your transport to drop 1 type of race and pick up the other race during your movement.)

[Puke]

wow, i thought it used to be based on the majority of the population on the planet. indeed, it is described that way somewhere... HTML help, i think.