I dunno, it seems feasible to me that if having a food surplus would also confer a bonus. It doesn't have to be a big bonus either, just a small reward for having invested into the research and infrastructure to reliably get there.
Having an full Energy surplus should confer a happiness boost
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Or more technology to do that. Or policies.
I think policies would be better, ones that stick on.
I think policies would be better, ones that stick on.
We need more, though. Some defaults, too.
Hey, go have a picnic, you don't need to work soul-crushing hours! How about a planet-wide Rave or holiday? Huzzah!
If you have an energy surplus you either:
a) need a bigger fleet
b) aren't terraforming enough (terraform everything, why not)
c) need to negotiate trades with the AI
Maybe an energy surplus could lead to a small boost in mineral production (handwave it as incredibly inefficient matter production?) at a 5:1 or 10:1 ratio
a) need a bigger fleet
b) aren't terraforming enough (terraform everything, why not)
c) need to negotiate trades with the AI
Maybe an energy surplus could lead to a small boost in mineral production (handwave it as incredibly inefficient matter production?) at a 5:1 or 10:1 ratio
I find Enclaves great way to burn off surplus Energy. Just buy research boosts and those monuments, and remainder of energy can be traded for minerals and strategic resources with trade enclaves.
If I ever get a full energy stockpile I guess that would create happiness bonuses in the limited fields of substandard world terraforming, naval corps, and energy to science re-education.
in Banks isn't there a faction who likes it is you have a Reserve of Energy over X Thousands?
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Thus having a health reserve of energy credits will make some POPs happier
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Thus having a health reserve of energy credits will make some POPs happier
Shouldn't everyone in your empire complain and moan about your surplus and demand deficit spending as in the real world? 
People actually made sugestions like "Happiness Boost for excess food if full grown" before Galactic Food came around.
The issue with both that and your idea is:
The happiness bonus simply becomes a requirement to play competitive. Your empire with the Bonus would simply become the "new default" empire. 60% or Faction+10% would be the new base happiness.
If everyone but you has the bonus, then you would be at a disadvantage.
Everything that needs lump-sums of Energy (in particular Terraforming) suddenly had a "Happiness cost" added to it, that is not even fixed/predictable because of your energy income (and thus the time to reach cap again).
Energy Shortages might result in a runaway effect: You have less then full income, so you go under the cap. The loss of the Happiness now also reduces your Energy Income even further. So you are even harder pressed to get back into positives.
I had that with robots. It's a pain when the reason for having no energy is that you have no energy. Traded for a couple of month's worth of energy to tank the drain and suddenly I was making a huge amount.
Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue if a sector hadn't colonised a 25 tile planet with exclusively robots...
What are these mythical "energy surpluses" of which you speak?
Every energy credit of the empire goes towards ships, troops, enclaves, or trades for more minerals so we can build more ships and troops.
If you have reached the energy cap and aren't spending it, I'm afraid that's heresy. Two blolters, Horus, blah blah blah... you guys know the rest.
Every energy credit of the empire goes towards ships, troops, enclaves, or trades for more minerals so we can build more ships and troops.
If you have reached the energy cap and aren't spending it, I'm afraid that's heresy. Two blolters, Horus, blah blah blah... you guys know the rest.
Something interesting from the Patchnotes on that front:
So at least for the future, the Sector AI will consider (and pay for) it's own pops.
Maintenance might be used in a more general way, inlcuding both the Consumer Goods and energy demands of Robots.
