Happiness and Discontent

Discontent is a value tracked independently for each city. Cities gain or lose Discontent each year from various sources, and can also experience one-time increases or decreases.

When a city accumulates enough Discontent (100 + 10*level) , it gains a Discontent Level. Each positive Discontent Level increases city Maintenance and reduces Science by 5%. It also decreases the opinion of the city's family by 20. When a city loses Discontent , its Discontent Level goes down instead. Negative Discontent Levels increases city Growth and reduces city Maintenance by 5%.

Yearly changes to Discontent

• -3 in cities with Cathedral improvement with the Inconography law

• -2 in the cities of the Cleric family

• -2 for a governor with the Righteous trait

• -2 in all cities for a leader with the Righteous trait

• -2 for the Hagia Sophia wonder (requires Legendary culture)

• -1 for having at least one military unit from the city's family within its borders per wall, moat and tower.

• -1 if your state religion is present in the city

• -1 in the capital per type of Luxury produced anywhere in your empire when not all of it is sent as a gift

• -1 with the Tolerance or Monetary Reform laws

• -1 for the Archive IV, Forum IV, or Treasury IV one-time projects (require Legendary culture)

• -1 for the Colosseum (tier 3 Theater, requires Strong culture) or Heated Baths (tier 3 Bath, requires Legendary culture) improvements

• -1 per Luxury produced by the city if your empire contains the Grand Bazaar wonder (requires Legendary culture)

• +0.5 per missing urban tile; a city ought to have at least 1 urban tile per 2 population (Citizens + Specialists)

• +1 with the Slavery law

• +2 for a governor with the Debauched trait

• +1 in all cities for a Leader with the Debauched trait

• +1 per Upset religion (opinion -1 to -99) present in the city

• +2 if the city was founded by a different empire.

• +2 per Angry religion (opinion -100 or lower) present in the city

• +4 if the city has lost any amount of HP (caused by enemy attacks, fixable with the Repairs project)

• Difficulty modifier on high difficulties, from +3 at The Able up to +10 at The Great.

• Some event options add a Project that affects Discontent yearly in either direction

One-time changes to Discontent

• -20/-40/-60/-80 respectively for the repeatable projects Festival I/Festival II/Festival III/Festival IV (requires Weak/Developing/Strong/Legendary culture)

• +10 each time a city is attacked

• +??? 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

• Some event options directly increase or decrease Discontent Level