Happiness and Discontent

Discontent No Icon Found is a value tracked independently for each city. Cities gain or lose Discontent No Icon Found each year from various sources, and can also experience one-time increases or decreases.

Every time a city accumulates 100 Discontent No Icon Found, it gains a Discontent Level, which increases Maintenance , reduces Growth , and decreases the opinion of the city's family [NEED EXACT VALUES]. When a city loses 100 Discontent No Icon Found, its Discontent Level goes down instead (to a minimum of 0).

Yearly changes to Discontent No Icon Found

• -3 No Icon Found per Culture Level for the Cathedral improvement of your state religion if it has the Dualism theology

• -2 No Icon Found in the cities of the Cleric family

• -2 No Icon Found for a governor with the Righteous or Enemy of the State traits

• -2 No Icon Found for the Hagia Sophia wonder (requires Legendary culture)

• -1 No Icon Found for having at least one military unit from the city's family within its borders

• -1 No Icon Found if your state religion is present in the city

• -1 No Icon Found in the capital per type of Luxury produced anywhere in your empire when not all of it is sent as a gift

• -1 No Icon Found with the Tolerance or Monetary Reform laws

• -1 No Icon Found for the Archive IV, Forum IV, or Treasury IV one-time projects (require Legendary culture)

• -1 No Icon Found for the Colosseum (tier 3 Theater, requires Strong culture) or Heated Baths (tier 3 Bath, requires Legendary culture) improvements

• -1 No Icon Found per Luxury produced by the city if your empire contains the Grand Bazaar wonder (requires Legendary culture)

• +0.5 No Icon Found per missing urban tile; a city ought to have at least 1 urban tile per 2 population (Citizens + Specialists)

• +1 No Icon Found with the Slavery, Tyranny, or Coin Debasement laws

• +2 No Icon Found for a governor with the Debauched trait

• +2 No Icon Found per Upset religion (opinion -1 to -99) present in the city

• +2 No Icon Found if the city was founded by a different empire.

• +4 No Icon Found per Angry religion (opinion -100 or lower) present in the city

• +4 No Icon Found if the city has lost any amount of HP (caused by enemy attacks, fixable with the Repairs project)

• Difficulty modifier on high difficulties, from +1 No Icon Found at The Good up to +6 No Icon Found at The Great.

• Some event options add a Project that affects Discontent No Icon Found yearly in either direction

One-time changes to Discontent No Icon Found

• -20/-40/-60/-80 No Icon Found respectively for the repeatable projects Festival I/Festival II/Festival III/Festival IV (requires Weak/Developing/Strong/Legendary culture)

• +10 No Icon Found each time a city is attacked

• +??? No Icon Found for hurrying production, depending on the amount hurried [NEED EXACT VALUES], if you don't have the Monetary Reform law

• Some event options add or subtract Discontent No Icon Found

• Some event options directly increase or decrease Discontent Level (effectively gaining or losing some multiple of 100 Discontent No Icon Found)