More Q&A with Kate
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Yzman
Deity
How does this work exactly? That would imply to me that it would be even harder to get a civ to -20 but maybe I am wrong.
kingchris20
Wisdom Seeker
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Too bad random events will only be in the scenario and in mods. I actually enjoyed the random events from Civ4.
I agree but I do like the events that come up for city-states. That seems to be the right level for such things.
Tinker
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Yeah, that's fine, because you can then go on to adjust to them. I suppose there's an element of luck there (like them wanting a Natural Wonder when you're right next to exploring one), but you would need to be exploring anyway and have seen the city-state. That's fine - losing a spy to a 85% chance coup of a city-state just sucks.
headcase
Limit 1 Facepalm Per Turn
Is there any way to leave the World Congress \ United Nations? If so, will trade embargoes or other penalties take effect immediately upon leaving, or will the remaining civs in the World Congress still need to have a vote to put an embargo on the renouncing civ?
Right here is fine
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Right here is fine
Earlier in this thread:
There are a TON of questions to go through. Could you restate it here for me?
I can't promise that it will be answered, but I can pass it along.
ldvhl
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No, per previous explanations from Firaxis.
Jewman
Prince
I hope they don't make happiness harder to handle, i had just mastered it. Last game I had a 100 happiness as Persia on Immortal... Had a golden age that lasted over 100 turns and probably would've kept going forever if I hadn't completely conquered everyone.
Monthar
Deity
I was thinking the same thing when I read that question's answer. With the AI's bonuses you'll never flip one of their cities in single player.
Getting to 100 is not mastering, I don't think, because it is easy to get over 40. Pre-G&K, we had to work at and make good choices to stay above 0. But alas, they made happiness much easier to obtain and basically removed that from the game. With BNW, I hope they bring back into the game to where you have to make a choice between gold or happiness, science building or a happiness one, etc., and the consequences thereof.
Bevel Lemelisk
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I think the -20 mark may change depending on difficulty. At lower levels yea I see it at -20, but the higher you go in difficulty the lower (abs value) the mark goes, so at King or so it may be -10 or -8
sendos
Immortal
I've reached -100 unhappiness before due to an auto-annexation bug. The barbarian raids aren't really much of a problem. It's mainly the -33% combat penalty. This new feature will deter those ignore the will of the people! 
m15a
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didn't one of the developers specifically note the issue of there being too much happiness currently, and say that in BNW they were trying to re-balance the AI so it has limitations that resemble the players (like from unhappiness)? sorry i can't give a direct quote or link, but i think it was in the long Q&A video with the annoying time delay.
maxp
Chieftain
This screenshot from http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_bravenewworld.html
shows the Zulu are down to +3 Happiness. So its not completely impossible to get them down to -20. Maybe its just -20 unhappiness from public opinion and not overall happiness.
shows the Zulu are down to +3 Happiness. So its not completely impossible to get them down to -20. Maybe its just -20 unhappiness from public opinion and not overall happiness.
I've reached -100 unhappiness before due to an auto-annexation bug. The barbarian raids aren't really much of a problem. It's mainly the -33% combat penalty. This new feature will deter those ignore the will of the people!
IIRC, in one screenshot people spotted that the combat penalty % was now equal to the unhappiness. -100 happiness is going to make war rather a challenge under that system.
Eh I find happiness to be decent enough through Renaissance. Late game it just becomes silly. Since I love to go tall everywhere though when I say silly you know its off. I just have horrible memories of having to go Piety every game since that was the only tree with happiness for awhile.
I do think limiting happiness could provide some nice benefits balance wise. If you remove happiness from Rationalism you would have a choice between raw science boosts and population science boosts in another tree. Along with the nerfs to Rationalism it might finally not become a must have tree. I'm pretty sure Rationalism lost its happiness policy since Honor had its happiness stolen by Autocracy and replaced it with a production boost. Order has taken the Rationalism happiness policy in the same way.
It could also really boost Autocracy for Domination games. They already gave Autocracy a happiness boost compared to the other trees, this would emphasize that extra happiness. It would also strengthen Honor, Domination synergy since you would need to build a lot of xp buildings that would be cheaper through Honor.
I do think limiting happiness could provide some nice benefits balance wise. If you remove happiness from Rationalism you would have a choice between raw science boosts and population science boosts in another tree. Along with the nerfs to Rationalism it might finally not become a must have tree. I'm pretty sure Rationalism lost its happiness policy since Honor had its happiness stolen by Autocracy and replaced it with a production boost. Order has taken the Rationalism happiness policy in the same way.
It could also really boost Autocracy for Domination games. They already gave Autocracy a happiness boost compared to the other trees, this would emphasize that extra happiness. It would also strengthen Honor, Domination synergy since you would need to build a lot of xp buildings that would be cheaper through Honor.
Oh, well, no new-civ-hints this time...
BUT... City flipping details finally... And, Diplomats sound actually a bit interesting...
I wonder though, how common will it be to have -21 happiness? Right now I don't think that ever happened to me, but of course there was no Ideology system...
BUT... City flipping details finally... And, Diplomats sound actually a bit interesting...
I wonder though, how common will it be to have -21 happiness? Right now I don't think that ever happened to me, but of course there was no Ideology system...
werothegreat
Warlord
This screenshot from http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_bravenewworld.html
shows the Zulu are down to +3 Happiness. So its not completely impossible to get them down to -20. Maybe its just -20 unhappiness from public opinion and not overall happiness.
It's -20 from public opinion, which is when the civ goes into a Revolutionary Wave. Get it?
