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Legacy/Outdated Balance Mod

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Everyone, please switch over to the newest version of the mod here : https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1467372500

This version will stay outdated, its only use is for all your legacy saves.
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This mod's goal is to rebalance all aspects of the game to bring a lot more polish and a more even playing field for newer and advanced players alike.

Mod is far from being finished so expect new features to drop every so often, but you can start testing it and helping me iron out some bugs now.

-Reworked themes of the different parties
-Pacifist party now focuses more on Diplomacy and peaceful means of wounding your enemies.
-Religious party's theme now includes Heroes and is a bit more about mysticism and less about xenophoby
-Ecologist party now has all the laws regarding colonization, population diversity and anomaly laws
-Science now is the discovery and science party
-Industrialists is the construction and Strategics party
-Millitarists are still focused on better and cheaper means to kill

-Added Inflation reduction law for Pacifists
-Strategics law now gives a % Increase instead of a flat bonus so it now depends on depot size.
-Tweaked Lumeris quest law from 25% More industry to 15% Industry and 30% Industry spent to Dust conversion.
-Replaced Tech cost reduction from the Science pinned law to per pop Science instead.
-Reworked the Sins and Sinners law which was OP.
-Fixed some old bugs on Law upkeep calculation.
-Tweaked or changed laws that benefited a bit too much from being micromanaged, for example Added incentives to keep Bigger is Better activated more than a few turns, it now gets its full effects only after a few turns.


-Buffed Dictatorship and Autocracy pinned laws
-Buffed Dictatorship and Autocracy Hero skill multiplier from 1.5x to 3x


-Changed Heroes healing cost from 750 * Missing Health to 750 * Missing Health * Level



-Resources min value from 0.4 * Base Price to 0.001 * Base Price, no more selling your potatoes at high price thanks to Inflation.
-Cut in third the time it takes for Heroes to refill the marketplace
-Base Hero price from Level * (1000 + Turn) to Level * 850 + 65* Turn + 150 to make it harder for one person to hoard all heroes unless they have a really powerful economy
-Max ship stock from 20 to 50 to help you buy your own ships as mercenaries
-Max Hero stock from infinite to 6

-Reduced the threshold for population collection bonuses (for minor factions only), from 5/20/50 to 5/10/20 and from 5/10/20 to 2/4/7 for guardians, this should let minors' neutral laws come into play way more often and when it still matters.


-Diminished the cost of the first few arks greatly to help those starts with no minor civs around to leech and get you started
-Made Arks cost scale geometrically instead of linearly to make leeching relevant in mid and late game
-Made Arks cost 80% of max stock to help reduce Essence waste.
-Changed species stability act to not be mandatory anymore, also tweaked it to remove the RNG of how many starting habitable planets you get
-Tweaked ark FIDSI modules, added Essence cost for tier 3 and 4 ones to give you the opportunity to play "tall" by sacrificing additional arks for better yields.
-Buffed Military Penance (manpower population) transformation improvement from 300 to 500 MP gain, cost halved (the 1 turn cost is already high enough as it is).


-Fixed "seeding" exploit by adding a "memory" of the pop you built to calculate the cost of new pops (and as a result added a cap on the max cost depending on gamespeed, 2500 on normal) which means seeding will still be a viable tactic but you'll need a fully developed system instead of using an empty one.
-Activated population boosting for riftborn pops, no effect apart from doubling their FIDSI output (functionally similar to Vodyanis but for some reason not activated in Vanilla)


-Nerfed bonus from peaceful relationships (15% Science/Dust -> 20% Dust, 7% Science)
-Made the rooting power of colonizer ships scale with the number of systems you own, way faster in early and a tad slower in late game compared to vanilla, to make your early game less painful and fix late game insta colonization.
-Halved the effect of gamespeed on the power of rooting ships.

-Removed weapons from the medium ship from the main quest religious path you can get really early, industry path unchanged.

-Highly recommended mod to nerf material expertise as it fixes SEVERAL exploits with the trait: Reworked Luxuries
-Made portals not buyoutable and their cost in Strategics now scales with the number of portals already built or queued (5 + 10*Number of portals), this should make portal more of a choice and less of a nobrainer, also fixes portal bombs by colonizing instantly and buying out a portal.

-Made more beautiful


-Automated ships gain more MP with left quadrant unlocks, and those gains are multiplied with faster game speed (from 1/1/1 to 3/3/6 times 2 on fast, 1 On normal, 2/3 on Long and 1/2 on Endless).