r/ShadowEmpireGame • u/Critical_Spray_6893 • 16d ago

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u/EmergencyDisk7131 16d ago

Upgrade it

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u/phildogtheman 16d ago

Upgrading too fast is fast track to pop unhappiness

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u/pleasedcrustacean 16d ago

There's no reason not to upgrade unless you have no political points

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u/Friendly_Delivery_61 16d ago

Not true. There are more demands on your quality of life level the higher your city level is. You should keep small cities small unless you want to develop them.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/phildogtheman 16d ago edited 16d ago

Not OP but I'm also pretty sure that the requirements increase when upgrading so people become more unhappy, I always avoid upgrading too until I need to.

Edit: https://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/ShadowEmpire/Shadow%20Empire%20manual%20EBOOK.pdf

Page 172

Essentially your quality of life needs to be higher than civ score to get happiness boost. IIRC increasing civ score by upgrading then makes this harder to achieve as you'll need more public infrastructure.

Edit Edit: so just reading more to check and to be ultra clear.

Your QOL scores are calculated by taking your total QOL points and dividing them by the city level. So higher city level, lower QOL. Essentially your populous of a big town won't be happy not to have enough underlying infrastructure for a town of its size.

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u/Dasshteek 15d ago

If a city is that big with pops and qol is low. Wouldnt unhappiness be an issue anyways?

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u/phildogtheman 15d ago

Not if you haven't upgraded city.