srlapo: I had two different games affected by the same bug. The crew goes from perfectly happy to extremely unhappy instantly and there is no way to remove them from that state. When you hover with the cursor over their morale breakdown some sort of garbage symbols are listed with the other modifiers. New crew members you hire after that happens are not affected by it, but replacing the whole crew is too time and resource consuming to do it all the time. Any news on patches for this game? We are still with the launch build despite all the bugs.
Felgar: It's due to promotions. As they get promoted they begin to get more and more demanding for stuff your ship doesn't start with and one of the first demands they get is they want to take a bath. Two ways to handle this I've found so far. Either don't promote them till later after you've researched the advanced bathroom that has a shower, or fast forward time at dock until the bar goes away. The second way is a real pain if you forget to do this before you launch, so I tend to keep everyone at level 1 until much later in game.
No, that's different. I never promote them past level 2 until I get the shower, never past 4 until I get the gym, all the crew loves the same food (and thus each other).
What happens here is that ALL their needs are fulfilled, they are super happy AND on fire and then instantly they became supper unhappy for no good reason. The happiness bar is still full, so is their health and they have no unsatisfied needs, plus they love the rest of the crew. It isn't gradual, it happens instantly and some garbage data gets listed in the happiness modifiers. And after it happens there is no chance to recover them, you need to replace the WHOLE crew. Newcomers are just supper happy... until the bug hits again. I have two separate games on hold waiting for this to be fixed.
