Not enough war unhappiness.

[Dinner]

I normally play MP and it is not uncommon for people to have a war lasting the entire 5000 years of the game. Even after 5000 years of constant war no was unhappiness can be seen. Isn't this a little unrealistic? For game balance war unhappiness should be tuned up so that the war mongers actually suffer some sort of negative effect.

[Boris Godunov]

I thought war unhappiness only geared up when you were the aggressor, or when a significant percentage of your population is the ethnicity of the nation with which you are at war.

If you get attacked by another power, I don't think you should suffer war weariness as a result. That would be a recipe for punishing players who just defend.

[ben_sphynx]

Police State significantly cuts how much war unhappyness there is; at one point near the end of a long war, I decided I had enough units, and changed to a different goverment civic, and some of my cities developed an extra 19 or so unhappy faces.
This was bad, and one cant change back for 5 turns...

[MattPilot]

I think war unhappiness (if you are the aggressor) is just about right.

After about 30 turns or so (don't really recall), i had some 10 unhappiness faces in my core cities. Sure put a halt to my production of military units.

Good thing though was i had enough units to finish the job.

[asleepathewheel]

In SP, I occassionally get slammed by war weariness when I am on the march. I don't know anything about MP, though.

[Dis]

my cities were starving because of war weariness one game. I switched to police state. problem solved.

[Jaybe]

... and some of my cities developed an extra 19 or so unhappy faces.

Ouch! I've only seen 17 from war weariness.
Modern age; I had declared war to pass through his territory to get to my real opponent, who had attacked ME.
(No, open borders were not an option)

[James M]

After 5000 years I'd imagine they're used to it.

Mabe you only get weariness if you had peace at some point. It certainly isn't zero for most SP games.

[Shogun Gunner]

I like the Police State civic -- it's the warmonger's choice

[=DrJambo=]

In contrast to SP, MP civ has an additional -50% war weariness.

[nbarclay]

In AU 100-A (the first Civ IV Apolyton University game), I had a war where I was pushing the culture slider up to at least 50%, maybe 60%, by the end in order to combat war weariness. It can definitely be a huge issue when launching major wars of aggression, at least when using civics that don't mitigate against it.