Happiness

Taxes, happiness, population and planetary structures are all related in a complex system. This page covers the happiness at a general level. For the details of how happiness works, and how it interacts with the other planetary states, please see the Taxes and Happiness Details page.

Happiness is reflected as a score. The Happiness score can not be higher than 100, but can be negative. The score also corresponds to a description. Those descriptions are as follows.

Happiness Score	Happiness Description
90-100	Happy
70-89	Calm
50-69	Unhappy
40-49	Very Angry
20-39	Rioting
<20	Fighting

The happiness score can be affected by:

• Tax levels (high taxes lower happiness)
• Population (high population lowers happiness)
• Native Government Level (higher level of native government increases native happiness)
• Native Race (Avians recover happiness faster than other native races)
• Being in a Nebula will increase native happiness recovery.
• Number of Factories and Mines (more of these decreases happiness)
• Temperature (farther from optimum decreases happiness)
• Combat around the planet will decrease happiness
• A Massive Meteor Strike will decrease happiness
• The Fury Pillage Planet and Plunder Planet (Campaign only) missions will lower happiness
• The Lizard Hisssss! mission will increase happiness
• The Rebel Ground Attack mission will effect happiness (increase natives but decrease colonists)

When the natives or colonists are rioting, they will destroy factories and mines. In addition, when either the natives or colonists are in a civil war, approximately 30% of each population (except Amorphous) will be killed, and even more of the factories and mines will be destroyed.

Please note that native happiness and population will change naturally (based on the number of mines and factories) even when there are no colonists on the planet.

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