Happiness

Happiness is calculated per city.

Each city starts with baseline happiness specified in new game settings (+5 by default).
Utopia upgrade increases this number by +1 each time it is built.

Additional Happiness can be gained as income from tiles and resources.

Happiness is reduced by:

• City population.

  Highrise upgrade reduces this factor by 50%.

• Number of cities.

  You eventually need to build Utopia in every city in order to continue expansion.

• The number of unemployed workers.

  Unemployement reduces happiness quadratically.

• Each consecutive turn spent in poverty (no ⬤ Gold in treasury).

• Starvation (negative Food in the city).

  Starvation reduces happiness proportional to the city population.

• Immigration.

• The Void.

Levels of Happiness

• Happy (Happiness is positive)

  gives Void Resistance within city borders proportional to Happiness. Happiness of +10 or more gives 100% resistance.

• Content (Happiness is 0)

  gives no bonuses.

• Unhappy (Happiness is negative)

  gives 50% penalty to city growth and 25% penalty to production.

• Anrgy (-1 Happiness per population or lower)

  gives 50% penalty to production and stops city growth.

• Raging (-2 Happiness per population or lower)

  stops all production and growth. The city will lose 1 population at the end of this turn.