University Morale

[Haxus]

Should universities give a positive morale modifier even if they aren't researching any patents?

Currently, morale effects of buildings that manufacture things are based on the number of active manufacturing jobs. Universities manufacture patents so they don't get the morale bonus unless actively conducting research.

[Deantwo]

Should universities give a positive morale modifier even if they aren't researching any patents?

Preferably yes.
Or require it to have offices along with the auditoriums.

[Mr. Mortius]

My vote is in favor of universities counting towards morale separately from manufacturing patents. This makes sense when you consider the fact that there are maybe 300 patents and a large city will require thousands of universities for morale. The extra patent processes would consume resources without producing anything useful.

[AnrDaemon]

Should be consistent with other morale buildings, IMO.

[Vectorus]

Should be consistent with other morale buildings, IMO.

I'm actually a bit unclear on which other morale buildings work like this. Most of them (cantinas, casinos, parks, hospitals, retail stores etc.) just have service/maintenance jobs, I believe?

You need food, air and power, but they are judged by actual demand, not by the number of processes - and the effect they have is transparent and logical. I'm not seeing how the production of patents actually produces happiness. To my mind, universities are currently inconsistent, in that they affect morale directly rather than by product (unlike air refineries, farms), but they require manufacturing processes to do so (unlike arenas, churches). Doesn't that make them unique, somewhere in the middle?

Which other buildings are you thinking of, Haxus? Just slightly confused; probably my fault.

[AnrDaemon]

Yes. If it needs to add more maintenance slots to universities to make up for what its job, then I'm okay with it.
But binding it to production is not right. Aside from created inconsistency, it raises additional questions.
Would it require to acually produce anything to cause morale boost, for example?

[Haxus]

This is changed in the update today. Universities will give their morale benefit even if they are not researching anything.

The university is the only morale building that manufactures anything. When a change was made to only tally the levels of buildings that are actually in use, universities were affected.

You will now find that the city report shows total levels of each building. Buildings that manufacture things will also show the number of levels in use, which corresponds to the number of shops enabled.