Happiness & City Raizing... I dont understand?

[bananamana]

I have been reading these forums a bit of the past while. I notice a lot of people raize cities instead of Annex. Also I notice peopel have issues with large empires and happiness.

Guys, I dont know what I do different but I have won and thrived using these two methods.

I never raize a city and I dont have issues with happiness.

My latest game has about 50 odd cities and I have 170 happiness. I annexed an entire AI civ for about 20 cities just shortly before now.

I really dont understand how its an issue.

I am moving up from Prince difficulty next game... maybe that is when I will see these issues?

[Biz_]

the idea is that you won't be able to conquer cities without the extra power and you won't be able to have more power if you're busy making happiness buildings

[bananamana]

So far I dont feel bogged down making happiness buildings. Maybe I have a higher pain threshold?

I have a super army with plenty of units.

The game before this one I had immense happiness, 50 odd cities and about 15 giant death robots with another huge army of modern armors and some randoms..

It is unfortunate that once I get to this stage the game falls flat and becomes a bit easy hence moving up the difficulties so quickly in comparison to Civ4

Anyways, grabbing a coffee now and starting up a new game on higher difficulty Going to skip one also so might get my ass kicked