Is this the difficulty level or new rules in the 1.22 patch?

[Carenza]

I have just installed the 1.22 patch in Conquests and also moved up to the Regent difficulty level.

Now I am having unhappy cities (do you want to give them entertainment pop-ups) and civil disorder when I never got that on the Warlord difficulty.

Is this just due to the difficulty level or have any of the rules changes that goven this in the 1.22 patch - I have read the readme and could only find mention of corupption rules.

[Kloreep]

Probably due to the difficulty level change. On Warlord 3 citizens start out content before they become unhappy, on regent only 2 citizens start out content.

[vmxa1]

Yup that will do it. You now have unhappy pop with the thrid citizen, unless you do something to offset it.

This mean you need a happy one, so it needs closer control than at Warlord.

Now just move up to emperor and get only one content citizen.

[Carenza]

I think it may be a bit of both. Installing the 1.22 patch resets EVERYTHING back to default which includes the city govenor and I did have that to manage citizen happiness.