Playing mods with unofficial patches and the happiness penalty is even more severe for each city founded. I find myself very quickly -20+ unhappiness. Ok so I expand slower but if I do this the AI gathers up most of the vacant spaces where I might have been and I am stuffed either way. Even with happiness resources I cannot get back into the black and with finances also. Yet I notice that the AI can merrily expand seemingly without these penalties. My production stagnates as a result.
Only other alternative is to attack an AI sooner rather than later, as the game does not seem to reward peacemaking as opposed to warmongering. As a matter of interest the modified version is much more challenging than vanilla, and I would guess more players use the mods section. But this is frustrating, so I must be doing something wrong. I can stick with 4 cities on a large map after that there seems to be a minus 7 penalty for each city, and that is very hard to rectify, even with trading etc.
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Originally Posted by tonyuk
