Can war make my people happy?????

[Cumulus]

I am at war with nearly everyone under democracy. I have a large air force and a small navy that I use to defend my continent. I am just kicking stuffing out of everything that comes near me with the new lethal bombardment bombers

Anyway, I was looking at my happiness because I was wondering if everyone was getting pissed because I was at war for so long. I was pleased to see that everyone was extreamly happy. I looked at the happy faces being generated and there were not enough to explain all the happiness. Is my winning the war causing this? I tried to search the forums, but it must be disabled.

Also, this new expansion is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fitchn]

I've never heard of this happening, but it would make for a cool concept--reverse war weariness! Not sure what gov it would apply to best, but what if your population became unhappy if you were not at war...? Just a random thought...

 

[Smellincoffee]

Negative war weariness- it's supposed to happen when old enmies declare war on you. Winning probably helps, though.

 

[Louis XXIV]

In an old game of civ3, I noticed several of my cities go into disorder the turn I got peace, when they were fine before. I think I was in Monarchy, but it might have been Despotism.

 

[thestonesfan]

There are several factors involved. I'd check the War Academy for some info.

One thing I have noticed is that when you first go to war with an old enemy, I get a big boost in happiness. It does go away after a while, though.

 

[Cumulus]

Originally posted by Smellincoffee
Negative war weariness- it's supposed to happen when old enmies declare war on you. Winning probably helps, though.

Where did you find that info just out of curiousity?

 

[Smellincoffee]

CivFanatics. I read it in several placews. Probably in strategy articles and succession games.

 

[Grille]

for a start, you could go to oystein's ww thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1177152#post1177152
There's also a thread about multible war happiness by Qitai in Civ3 Gen, which I'm unable to find atm. It's some weeks old I guess, so if you change the display order of threads (sorted by... at the bottom), you should get it.

 

[Cumulus]

Thanks!!!

I looked at most of the past threads and they seem to explain what happened. I was constantly destroying the incoming waves of frigates and galleons. They never got a chance to attack me, so I kept the negative war weariness the whole time.

Cool!!!!

 

[LaRo]

Originally posted by Cumulus
Thanks!!!

I looked at most of the past threads and they seem to explain what happened. I was constantly destroying the incoming waves of frigates and galleons. They never got a chance to attack me, so I kept the negative war weariness the whole time.

Cool!!!!

Could you resume me why that was happening?

 

[Jughead]

Winning always helps

 

[Grille]

Originally posted by LaRo


Could you resume me why that was happening?

When you're at war with an 'arch' enemy, you'd get 'negative' war weariness (ww) or better: war happiness (wh) (note: wh could be eaten up immediatelly once a war starts when you had just a short period of peace with that enemy and accumulated a lot of wwp before).
When you then avoid collecting war weariness points (wwp), you could preserve that wh theoretically forever. Wh received from one civ will make 25% of every city's pop happy (while you would get other 25% portions happy from fighting other arch enemies).
Having 4 of such wars going on will make a pop 8 city 100% happy, as long as you avoid the fighting (resp. getting wwp).
Qitai, who had made a thread about such multible wh, stated that getting a war declaration from asking some civ out will 'create' such an arch enemy... now try to not fight and see the fireworks. Once a civ is regarded as arch enemy, any new war with them will let you get the negative ww level.


edit:link to Qitai's thread mentioned above