Not a Bug: Selling Roof Tile House- no increase in provided happiness

[Drama-Queen]

I sold Roof Tile House, it shows -44 people +44 happiness plus the cost going; but count of people down, but happiness stays the same (did not looked at coins or resources). I did that twice in a row just to make sure I was correct.[ Even left the game and logged in again, just in case, but no increase in happiness

 

[DeletedUser65]

do you already have a 120% bonus??(if so you wont gain anything)
if you dont have the 120% bonus and still don't maybe you haven't passed the the 1.4 threshold

 

[Drama-Queen]

Yes I have 120% as I try to keep it that way all the time, but why would not provided happiness count increase? That does not make sense; I know I cannot go over 120%, but provided happiness count should be increasing regardless if I am 120% or mnot to allow for future buildings.

 

[DeletedUser]

It should increase, but we appear to be having some issues with server refresh rates, just to make sure it is not one of these, can you update this thread after a few hours and if it still has not changed I will report it as a bug...

 

[Drama-Queen]

I just did an experiment; moved my Tavern away from a path so my happiness dropped down from 120% .
Provided happiness went from 1661 to 1381
Sold one Tile Roof House; Provided happiness stayed at 1381 - no increase of 44 points.
Moved Tavern back to a path - happiness up to 1661

This makes it difficult switching from Roof Tile Houses to Cottages as I keep loosing on the provided happiness count every single time

 

[DeletedUser65]

i dont think you gain happiness, all it does is increase your available happiness. let me try explain

you have 2000 happiness
you have 1000 population
so you have 1000 available happiness.

now you sell your cottage losing 100 population.
your happiness remains at 2000
your population drops to 900 and
your available happiness rises from 1000 to 1100.

i hope this explains it a little better

 

[DeletedUser]

Yep - your exactly right farmer... its not the happiness that falls - its the population, so what increases is the number of happy people, but if your already at 140 percent you notice nothing... Not a bug

 

[Drama-Queen]

One more point, developers should heck if this is associated with my problem when I ended up with -7 count in available population. I believe it may be related, but I would like to have it fixed regardless as I want to s"upgrade" all my Roof Tile Houses

 

[Drama-Queen]

BUT my provided happiness in NOT going up! That's what I am saying (or trying to say anyway)

Besides, I went to my son's computer, sold one of his roof top houses and his provided happiness count went up 44 points even though he is at 120% also

Now that my cottage is build I dropped down from 120%; I "upgraded" 5 Roof Top Houses to Cottages so far and not received a single "return Happiness" from the sales even though it showed "flowing up 44 happiness" for each Roof top House sold.
From my calculation I was short-changed 220 (5 x 44) of Provided Happiness. This short fall dropped me down from 120%.

 

[DeletedUser]

happiness does not go up, it only goes up by adding happiness buildings or monuments, the population goes down, so the number of people that are made happy by your happiness buildings increases...

EG: Happiness 5000, Population 4000, 80 percent 120 percent happy then delete a building with 100 population... Happiness 5000 Population 3900 122 percent happy, but the happiness doesnt go up at all...

 

[DeletedUser65]

but your available happiness is not listed anywhere. the only thing that actually changes is your population drops. you have to calculate the available happiness yourself

the picture on the left was my base happ/pop. i sold a cottage which gave me -73 pop(the pic on the right) you can see underneath i calculated my availabe happiness which increased by 73 in the right pic

 

[Drama-Queen]

So why does it show "flowing up happiness when I sell? It even says you will get back 44 of provided happiness. Well the way I am going all my people will be drunk soon with all the Taverns I am building