[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12869) the happiness system

["Peter Schaefer" <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12869 >

Well, for starters, but may be not 100% accurate, and I also may be
mixing stuff from freeciv and the DOS version:

- angry citizens under Republic:
military units away from home cause one step of unhappiness
- cancelled by:
In freeciv1.14+ : no unhappiness if in any city
In freeciv2+     : no unhappiness if within own borders

- democracy:
effect of a military unit causing unhappiness is increased by
one(makes two uhappy)

-Womens Suffrage
effect of a military unit causing unhappiness is decreased by
one(makes none unhappy)
Is additive with democracy, so democracy+Women Suffrage should be like
Republic(one unhappy).

Unhappyness cause I am not sure are in freeciv:

- Air units:
Unhappiness is somehow different. Maybe +1, maybe just that they
always cause unhappiness(which actually increased your deployment
options, since they didnt have to stay at home.). its hard to tell,
since when I saw this, I usually had Womens Suffrage :)

- WMDs:
WMDs(nuclears and similar) somehow cause more unhappiness, I'm not
100% sure how this works. I think they always cause unhappiness,
regardless of being at home or not.

Features that I am missing in freeciv:

- defender
I believe that in Civ1.0 DOS, one citizen was unhappy if there was no
defender in the city. I recall regularly placing one defender to this
effect, especially under Republic. This would also modify smallpox
tactics and put a little more emphasis on defense. To put this the
other way, maybe it was more like this: Even under Republic, one
unhappy would be made content by a miliary unit, at least that was 
the effect.

- corruption:
In Civ1.0: poor cities with lots of corruption would join the enemy
with the wealthiest city(, often a democracy). Something similar could
be done in freeciv by making corruption influence happiness somehow.

- diplomat action:
Incite revolt, or a similar option could cause unhappiness. My brain
remembers this from some version of civ, not sure which. Or maybe I am
confusing it with the "Sabotage" option, which reveals unhappiness
when it destroys a temple ?!?









On 4/22/05, Benoit Hudson <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12869 >
> 
> In PR#9480, Jason said:
> > In general, I don't fully understand how happiness, celebration,
> > unhappiness, and disorder work.  I know I've said this before, but: is
> > there some documentation on this that anyone can point me to?
> 
> I don't know of any, but attached is a document.  Note the TODO:
> I don't understand angry citizens.
> 
> 
> At base, a city of size n has a certain number of citizens that are
> content.  In the default ruleset, that's 4 with a small civ, and fewer as
> the civ grows. The rest of the citizens start off unhappy.
> 
> Then we have a series of priority levels:
> 0- base
> 1- luxuries
> 2- buildings and some wonders
> 3- units
> 4- Bach wonder
> 
> Each level above 0 does some of three things:
> - make citizens content [temple, martial law]
> - make citizens happy   [luxuries, democracy+courthouse in original civ2]
> - make citizens unhappy [democracy+bombers]
> 
> The rule is:
> - first make citizens content
> - then make citizens happy
> 
> Turns out we never make citizens unhappy at the same time as we make them
> content or happy, so that order is undefined.  I'm not sure how we ever get
> angry citizens.
> 
> 'make content' operates first on angry citizens then on unhappy ones.
>         It has no effect on content or happy citizens.
> 'make happy' operates first on content citizens, then unhappy, then angry.
> 'make unhappy' operates first on content citizens, then unhappy.
> 
> Moving a citizen up one level takes one unit of work.  For example, two
> luxuries are one unit of make-happy work; one temple+mysticism is two units
> of make-content work.  So if you have a temple and nothing else in a city
> that has an angry citizen, the angry citizen becomes content.
> 
> Example:
> Assume we have a city of size 7 with 8 luxuries, a temple, and a cathedral
> in a medium-sized democracy (so base of 3 content) with 3 units in the
> field and JS Bach's cathedral.  We know mysticism and theology.
> We start with:
> 0:      0/3/4/0   happy/content/unhappy/angry
> Level 1 applies the 8 luxuries, which are 4 make-happy work:
> 1:      3/1/3/0   [3 content became happy, 1 unhappy became content]
> Level 2 applies the cathedral (4) and the temple (2) for 6 make-content:
> 2:      3/4/0/0   [3 unhappy became content, 3 units of work wasted]
> Level 3 applies the 3 units, which are 6 make-unhappy work:
> 3:      2/0/6/0   [4 content became unhappy, 1 happy became unhappy]
> Level 4 applies the JS Bach, which is 2 make-content work:
> 4:      2/2/4/0   [2 unhappy became content]
> 
> TODO: explain angry citizens and give an example with both make-happy and
> make-content in the same step.
> 
> 
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