Unhappy people (too crouded)

[FileCop]

Not been playing for that long, but what always seems to happen in all my cities is a lot of people get unhappy because it's too crouded.

How do I prevent this? Production slows down etc., as I have less workers on my hand.

Should I build more cities? Decrease growthrate of city so I get less people there? Increase growth rate?

Please help

 

[snepp]

Do a forum search for "unhappy" or "crowded", you'll find a ton of info.

Also, be sure to set the search to only look in the Civ4 forums.

 

[Shillen]

For each point of population a city gets 1 unhappiness due to crowding. You cannot remove this unhappiness, but you can compensate it by getting happiness resources (fur, silks, wines, etc.), buildings that increase happiness (temples, coloseums, etc.), converting to a religion with that religion in the city, and certain civics (hereditary rule gives +1 happiness per unit in the city for example).

In many cases you're better off preventing your city from reaching the point where it has fewer happiness than unhappiness. You can work tiles that have more hammers/commerce but less food. This will improve the output of your city more than if you let it continue growing and having unhappy and unproductive citizens.

 

[wotan321]

Down in the bottom right hand corner of the city screen are some buttons that give orders to the "city governor" or whatever its called. One of the buttons tells the city to work tiles so that population does not increase. Keep an eye on the happiness and health ratios up in the top right-center of the city screen, and plan accordingly.

My normal procedure is to set the governor to emphasize growth via food production upon creation of the city. After it reaches 6 or 7 in population, turn off the food and turn on production and "no growth" buttons in the bottom right corner of the city screen. As you can build aqueducts and later hospitals, of course revisit the city screens of each city so you can turn growth back on until to reach your happiness/health limits.