Identity crisis

[KaDingir]

Playing a Regent game as Persia, I've just been stabbed in the back by Hammurabi yet again. Unfortunately for him I knew it was coming, and I'm looking forward to an entertaining session of Stomp The Babs. However, my righteous crusade was briefly detoured when half a dozen cities went into unrest as soon as Hammy declared war. (I'm in republic, by the way.) These are all cities which I had captured from him centuries ago during an earlier unpleasantness. When I investigated the unhappy people in each city, they told me that 62% of their unhappiness was due to crowding, and 38% was because they couldn't forget the cruel oppression I had borne down on their motherland. (It's gonna be a lot crueler this time: I have modern armor.) Thing is, these people are all Persians!! I starved out the original inhabitants long ago. Is this some kind of Jungian race memory? Have other folks experienced this phenomenon? I expect this sort of thing in cities I've captured recently with multi-ethnic populations, but these whiners are all red white and blue Persians. Am I justified in being surprised, or is this actually commonplace?

Thanks.

 

[Jawz II]

its the ghost of children starved to death... they shall haunt you forever and ever!!

but hammu is a shamoo who needs to be killed ASAP

just like saddam,all rulers from that patch of land tend to be assclowns!

 

[the mormegil]

I don't know, but I'm quite sure it isn't what Jawz II said.

BTW, how do you investigate why the people are unhappy?

 

[KaDingir]

Go to the city view and click on the unhappy folks. They'll tell you what's wrong.

I suppose it might be ghosts; perhaps I need an exorcist.

 

[Tomoyo]

It shows on the city screen that they are persians, but the Happy and content Babylonians are propagandizing the Persians into deep confusion, attempting to soften up the target for the Motherland.

 

[Halcyon]

"The cruel oppression you have borne down on our motherland"?

'The cruel oppression you have born down upon us' is if you've rushed improvements in the last twenty turns by sacrificing citizens in totalitarian government, making people unhappy.

If they're actually saying 'Stop the aggression against our mother country' then it's because they're deluded babylonian wannabes. Which does it actually say?

 

[Chief Lunatic]

I always seem to end up upsetting either the Zulu's or the German's.

Its as if they think I'm a soft target.

 

[HamaticBabylon]

Kill off those annoying Babylonians and raze their capitol if you want to stop all the civil unrest. It’s hard when you have to defend for the first few turns of a war, but face it you might as well finish them now before they become even more powerful!

As for the tiptoe attack by Hammurabi that’s normal, trust me guys I have had a lot.... and I mean a lot of sneak attack by the A.I

 

[soren]

Originally posted by the mormegil
BTW, how do you investigate why the people are unhappy?

Just go to the city and click on the unhappy people.

[edit: oops, I now see this has already been answered.)