Reputation impact on hapiness

[DeltaV112]

Feels too significant in some cases(conquering indies is powerful, but the big reputation impact will trash your income). I think the magnitude of the happiness impact should depend on race/government at least, so that races that are focused on aggressive conquest aren't actively penalized for engaging with their mechanics. Maybe tie it to other empires/indy actual relations to you instead of the reputation score- if everyone hates you there's a happiness penalty, but if everyone loves you even though you did bad things, it doesn't matter.

[thc13]

Agree. The impact on conquer of neutral planet is really huge.

[EnDSchultz]

Also the Boskarans are out of control in my game, they're threatening us with overwhelming power, have subjugated countless races and yet between the time we began war to the time I was able to get a strike group to their worlds, their reputation has gone from -35 (evil) to 0 (neutral) and my people will get angry if I try to wipe them out, in spite of the fact we hate them, they've conquered several of our colonies, and are knocking on the door of our core worlds.

Not that it matters at this time, baseline atomic devastators are bugged and don't work anyway.

[Carewolf]

It also creates some very odd results with colonization where ANY new colony before they get resources that improves morale will have negative morale, and INSTANTLY rebel. I had 4 colonies in a row rebel a few days after being settled because I had negative reputation.

[baldamundo]

It also creates some very odd results with colonization where ANY new colony before they get resources that improves morale will have negative morale, and INSTANTLY rebel. I had 4 colonies in a row rebel a few days after being settled because I had negative reputation.

Yeah, the rebellion code needs a whole load of sanity checks put in tbh. Seems like they just rebel immediately if happiness goes too low, putting there doesn't seem to be any cooldown for revolts and suppressing them doesn't seem to add any happiness back. So there's a lot of circumstances possible where you will just get infinite constant rebellions on a planet. The entire population repeatedly throwing itself against your garrison until the entire population dies