Happiness/trading hit into the Modern age is dumb

[simklay]

From a happy town to this. This makes no sense.
These age transition penalties don't seem very well thought out.

 

[MutilationWave]

From a happy town to this. This makes no sense.
These age transition penalties don't seem very well though out.

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How did you get such a negative happiness hit? I've never seen it that bad. Also never seen negative food.

 

[Krikkit1]

How did you get such a negative happiness hit? I've never seen it that bad. Also never seen negative food.

Well it wasn’t settlement limit…
I’m guessing a loss of some Civ-specific civic benefits, maybe constitution policy loss with many specialists as well.

 

[simklay]

Nope, not settlement limit, and not war. Too early in the age (this is around turn 10 or so I think).
But I I have no idea, I would be guessing that its the loss of policies and trade. I had a lot of trade going in the previous age, like 30/35 resources.

I really HATE the trade mechanic in modern age. Its great in the other two, but modern ages is horribly bad.

It just seems bizarre how you can come out of an age, doing very well, then its all a shambles in the first few turns of modern age.
10 turns later it was positive again, but it just seems so disjointed and when the UI is so bad at explaining what the hell is going on, its a little unmotivating.

 

[MutilationWave]

Nope, not settlement limit, and not war. Too early in the age (this is around turn 10 or so I think).
But I I have no idea, I would be guessing that its the loss of policies and trade. I had a lot of trade going in the previous age, like 30/35 resources.

I really HATE the trade mechanic in modern age. Its great in the other two, but modern ages is horribly bad.

It just seems bizarre how you can come out of an age, doing very well, then its all a shambles in the first few turns of modern age.
10 turns later it was positive again, but it just seems so disjointed and when the UI is so bad at explaining what the hell is going on, its a little unmotivating.

How did you turn that happiness deficit around in ten turns?

 

[Krikkit1]

How did you turn that happiness deficit around in ten turns?

I’m guessing getting resources through trade.

 

[simklay]

How did you turn that happiness deficit around in ten turns?

Policies (I can't remember which ones but there were some that provided happiness).
I think I slotted in a food policy, which raised the food deficit and threw in a newly unlocked happiness buff policy, plus the endeavour that gives you extra happiness.
Just hyper focused on it, but can't recall exactly what I did. Maybe 15-20 turns it was better, but didn't seem like long.