A bit worried about population happiness...

http://www.4players.de/4players.php/...Total_War.html

Allright,looks like the human player really messed up the population happiness.Since in rtw,i usually have green icons for my population in all provences,I am a bit worried when i see all those blue icons :help: .
Will it be very hard to keep your population happy?Or did the tester just messed up? I have seen another screenshot,showing paris and reims etc.
There,population wasn't that happy either but I can't find that screenshot.
Plz feel free to give your thoughts about this.

Maybe he was not playing seriously?

But anyway, blue faces may be the sign of a tight campaign. There's not much (any?) benefit going above a blue face, so when I am playing a tough campaign with real constraints, I often squeeze my towns down to the 75% loyalty limit. Especially, where my cities are large and I don't want population growth.

Now I think there will be motive for sparing rebels and releasing prisoners instead of going for the dread.

I really hope you guys are right...

Don't worry, Leon is green, and Granada and Cordoba are just huge in population, i clearly see 15504 in Granada meaning a high level of squalor. My settlements in RTW are surely blue when i tax them High/Very High at this population level.

They need more plagues to control the population.