User Guide

HAPPINESS & CIVIL DISORDER

Happiness and its inverse state, civil disorder, are indirectly related to trade. Lack of trade

leads to stagnation, and a slow economy means a lack of goods and services. The citizens in

your cities have one of three different attitudes or emotional states: happiness, contentment,

or unhappiness. The first citizens of your first city start out in a contented state. As the

population of the city grows, competition for jobs, commodities, and services increases.

Eventually, depending on the difficulty level at which you play, the form of government

your civilization employs, and the economic conditions in your city, some citizens start to

grumble and display unhappiness. If you don’t take an active role in city management as

population increases, the natural trend of citizens’ attitudes is toward unhappiness.

So what can you do to counter this trend? If your

population is already suffering civil disorder because of

an attitude imbalance, you need to take immediate

steps, as we suggest under Restoring Order. However,

you needn’t wait until a crisis occurs; you can keep

citizens content by taking a longer outlook and

providing services as the demand becomes imminent,

or even ahead of demand.

The temperament of your citizens depends on the

level of difficulty at which you play. At Chieftain level,

your people are so even-tempered that the first six

citizens on the POPULATION ROSTER start out content. Each

new citizen above this number starts with a bad attitude, and must depend on

improvements, luxuries, martial law, and/or Wonders of the World to improve his or her

state of mind. The number of citizens who start content decreases by one with each

successive level of difficulty, until at Deity level, your people are so temperamental that

only one citizen starts out content. The second and subsequent citizens show their

unhappiness, and must be cajoled into better humor with any of the management tools at

your disposal.

1 2 3 4 5 6

1 Happy Citizens

2 Content Citizens

3 Unhappy Citizens

4 Taxmen

5 Scientists

6 Entertainer

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