This topic has been really helpful all. Looks like i've not been specialising my cities enough or expanding fast enough. I think the pace of the game is faster than I expected. Going to boot up this evening and have another go.

Thanks guys, I had already found the pollution, habitation and tax options although they haven't made a dent in my morale issue. My capital had grown to size 20 and when I founded my second city the growth (due to migration) was something like 24. The second city grew so rapidly that I found the sam...

Hello, I just bought this today and i'm quite enjoying it so far. I have a question with regards to morale though. How on earth do you get more morale? My capital seems to grow exponentially and then I get some kind of city revolt pop-up. I then tried to expand rapidly to 'spread the load' so to spe...