Why Don’t Residents Benefit from High Amenities?

[MrChouette]

I'm running an authoritarian empire, and I recently incorporated the Nivlacs as residents. I noticed that I was running into some happiness problems, even more than what was coming from the 10% resident negative. As you see in the picture, my main species, the Telneir, is getting a +17% happiness bonus from having 34 extra amenities. The Nivlac, on the other hand, is not receiving any bonus from amenities whatsoever. I know residents use less amenities than citizen pops, but shouldn't they still get some bonus from having more than the bare minimum? Is this intended behavior or a bug? I'm running 2.2.4 beta with no mods.

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[Wolfgang I]

They do and the tooltip gives you the correct info.

Residence does seem a bit shitty now because of that.
I only noticed it myself in my current inward perfection/technocracy/agrarian idyll game because I can't give synths citizenship. Materialist xenophopes should have the option imo they are pure beings untouched by xeno taint after all. Just kidding I'm only annoyed because the uplifted trait blocks erudite and I hoped I could use synth leaders instead.

 

[Less2]

It's worth noting that decreasing the amenities requirements of pops through slavery does increase the bonus amenities provides to your citizens since they are proportionately larger.

 

[MrChouette]

Ah, I never noticed that part of the tooltip, I guess it is intended behavior then. That's kind of irritating though, I find it hard to believe that a person living as a resident somewhere where the resident still had a pretty good way of life would just be focused on how pissed off he was that he wasn't a citizen. Effectively, my resident pops are getting a -20% to 30% happiness decrease, which is pretty severe. Unless I'm missing something, I think the only way to effect the happiness of the residents short of global buffs is to give them better living standards, which is a bit immersion breaking for an authoritarian mostly-slave empire.

In my opinion, they should either:
-Give residents a smaller percent of the amenity happiness bonus, lower than the .75 amenity usage to also take the place of the arbitrary -10% happiness factor.
-Give residents the happiness bonus, or even just 75% of it, and subtract the -10% off.

With both options, you still get less happy pops than your citizens, but if you shower them with dancers and priests and doctors and the like, they could still end up with positive happiness. Thoughts?

 

[MrChouette]

Unless of course, everyone is just fine with how it works now

 

[metalosse]

Well, it seems to be actually a good thing (at least in theory).

Residents have less political power, so increasing their happiness is not as useful as increasing the happiness of citizens. So the increase of stability through amenities is more efficient this way.

Unless the calculation of the happiness bonus is based on total pops rather than total of citizens, in that case, I guess it is supposed exempt slaves from the happiness bonus.