Miserable Settlements

[Monsieur Alphonse]

add_population "city" -10000

Or build more buildings that improve public order; town hall, church, barracks, brothel, spy, garrison.

[Askthepizzaguy]

There is only one way to manage those malcontents.

Build a large garrison, then leave the city. When they declare their independence, you declare war on them and lay seige. Then when you take the city back, sack it. If it happens again, exterminate them.

Use your pillaging florins to rebuild your vital garrisons and city walls, and let the rebellious fools return to their farmery. Raising crops is for the weak and enslaved anyway.

[The Wandering Scholar]

A good governer will help.

[Guru]

A good governer will help.

And a bad one will make things even worse. Sometimes it's better to keep the governor out of the city. They often cause religious unrest and so on...

[Rhyfelwyr]

Remember there's 5% happiness for every chivalry helmet your governor has.

Also don't build Taverns etc, they may appear to give happiness bonuses but they will soon give you dread characters with the unpoplar and alcoholic line of traits.

[Askthepizzaguy]

1. Promote a MESS of captains. If you have public order problems, chances are your empire is vast. Need a bunch of high chivalry governors?

2. Go on a crusade or jihad with about 10 generals or more in the same stack. All young, vital, and not very drunk or corrupt... yet.

3. Take the crusade target quickly with all your generals in that stack.

4. BOOM. Instant +5 chivalry for all your generals, including the join crusade bonus... could get up to 9 or 10 chivalry on most of them if they began with any!

5. Ship them back to your capital and boost your trade provinces.

[knoddy]

if its that annoying to u just go into ur files and mod like the town watch (like second lv town building that lets u train militia) to give a 100-200% happiness increase. u will never have to worry bout happiness again in towns :D