Not sure if the feedback is interesting since we've already moved past it, but I had some happiness issues in the last beta, with a 9-city Progress Poland on Immortal. There were transitory, but I experienced some downsides of the system:
- when my Heroic Epic city was unhappy, I had to produce units elsewhere (overall I stayed above 75% at almost all times, so global happiness wasn't a problem).
- contrary to what has been said by others, I had to do more micro-management in this particular game (not so in other games) to check regularly which city was unhappy and make sure it wasn't tasked with producing a unit.
I mention these because I rarely had swings in previous versions (except 1 in September IIRC and the February one), so this was something of a regression for me.
And sometimes it felt like a well-developed city was unhappy while a similar one elsewhere wasn't.
What are the right logs to provide if we think there might be a problem?
Also, regarding War Weariness: I want it to be more impactful again, but we should be wary of the "double-penalty" effect if both unhappiness and war weariness impact unit production.
Ultimately, once the system matures, perhaps we can roll the WW effects into happiness altogether, since they're becoming more alike?
By the way, it has been mentioned already that Unhappiness should also include gold costs of the units for which it slows down production.
Finally, the current topic I take to heart: will Unhappiness stop impacting trade units/workers/work boats in the next version?
