Are you:
- Annoyed at how steeply district costs ramp up after the early game?
- Think it's ridiculous how long it takes to get a new city up and running in the later ages of the game?
- Find it a bit unrealistic that modern socities apparently spend decades figuring out where to place a shopping mall? (Well, in this case you should probably sit through a local city council meeting, but I digress.)
If any of these are the case this might be the mod you're looking for!
In the base game, district cost is based primarily on the progress of the game, with minor offsets
for lagging behind other civilizations. At a conceptual level, it simply doesn't make sense for
the cost of pointing to where a building should be built to scale based on technology.
Similarly, while it makes sense that building a new district in a large city at later stages of the
game would be more costly than in the early game, it doesn't make much sense for it to cost exactly
the same amount in a smaller and more recently founded city. This mod reworks district costs to
address these issues.
First, district cost is no longer tied to tech/civic progress. Instead it is based on the number of districts of that particular type previously built by in the civilization as well as the number of specialty districts (of any type) already present in the city. The intent is that it should still be possible in the mid to late game to found a new city and get districts up and running fairly quickly (particularly if your empire is small).
- District cost no longer scales with game time or has catchup mechanisms relative to other civs.
- District cost scales based on the number of previous districts of that type constructed by the civilization. Each district constructed adds 40% of the base cost of a district to future constructions of that district. (Neighborhoods are still fixed cost.) The 40% increase cost is a gameplay concession to penalize indiscriminate building of districts and prevent ICS.
- Building a district in a city with 1/2/3/.../10 specialty districts already built increases district cost by 10/25/45/70/100/140/180/220/260/300%. Larger cities should have bigger districts that take more production to construct (but not, in practice, more turns to construct since larger cities will have more production per turn).
- Removes Reyna's Contractor promotion for buying districts with gold since the production scaling described above does not affect the converted gold cost, so districts would be unreasonably cheap to purchase. (And, honestly, because I simply don't like the district purchase mechanic.)
- New promotion for Reyna - Free Trader:
- Adds +2 gold to outgoing international trade routes.
- Adds +2 gold for both parties to incoming international trade routes.
The end result of these changes is that districts should cost a similar amount of production as the base game in the early eras but much less in later eras and for smaller empires.
This mod should be compatible with all other mods and since the statements that change district costs are generic it should alter the costs of custom districts added by other mods. However, as with any mod, unforeseen conflicts may occur.
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