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Happiness {{icon| Happiness|12px}} is a value tracked independently for each city. Cities gain or lose Happiness each year from various sources, and can also experience one-time increases or decreases. A lose of Happiness is called | Happiness {{icon| Happiness|12px}} is a value tracked independently for each city. Cities gain or lose Happiness each year from various sources, and can also experience one-time increases or decreases. A lose of Happiness is called Discontent {{icon| Discontent|12px}}. | ||
A new city starts with a | A new city starts with a Happiness Level of 0 and a half-filled bar (50/100). It usually loses Happiness each turn based on the Difficulty setting and other modifiers, decreasing this bar (with the change indicated in lighter purple). | ||
When the city starts to gain Happiness instead, its Discontent Level goes down | When the Happiness bar empties (0/100), the city gains its first Discontent Level {{icon| Discontent|12px}} with a nearly full bar (/110) which will continue to decrease while the Happiness is negative. Each time a city loses enough Happiness (100 + 10*level), it gains a Discontent Level {{icon| Discontent|12px}}. Each Discontent Level increases city Maintenance {{icon| Maintenance|12px}} and reduces Science {{icon| science|12px}} by 5%. It also decreases the opinion of the city's family by 20. | ||
When the city starts to gain Happiness instead, the Happiness bar increases (with the change indicated in darker purple) and its Discontent Level goes down until being again a Happiness Level 0, then gaining Happiness Levels at the same rate as for Discontent Levels (100 + 10*level). Happiness Levels increases city Growth {{icon| Growth|12px}} and reduces city Maintenance {{icon| Maintenance|12px}} by 5%. | |||
A positive change of Happiness is indicated as positive Happiness (e.g. +60 {{icon| Happiness|12px}}) while a negative change of Happiness is indicated as positive Discontent (e.g. +10 {{icon| Discontent|12px}}). | |||
[[File:Happiness and Discontent Levels.png|frame|center|Happiness and Discontent Levels]] | [[File:Happiness and Discontent Levels.png|frame|center|Happiness and Discontent Levels]] |