


There are some Laws, Government type (Democracy), a few Faction traits, and several Technologies you can research which give a global boost to Happiness to all of your systems at the same time, without constructing buildings, sometimes requiring you to meet certain criteria (+8 Happiness per Faction at Peace, + Happiness per War, + Happiness when colonizing certain planets, etc.) In addition to the various buildings you can construct which increase Happiness within a certain System, this can all up quite quickly. However, in many cases it can be easier & faster to just keep increasing the happiness of your systems in other ways. As has been mentioned, there is a building you can research & build in level 4 Systems to increase your Overcolonization limit by 1 per building constructed.

Each faction has their own individual story going on, but the main backstory is of the Endless, a now extinct race of space faring beings that managed to develop at an astronomical rate.
Endless space 2 wiki over colonization windows#
As far as I can tell, the penalty is simply that for every Colony you control over your limit, all your Systems suffer a -10 Happiness debuff. Endless Space 2 is a 4X turn base strategy game created by Amplitude Studios and published by Sega for Windows in 2017.
