Common Ground Overhaul

[TheStoryEnthusiast]

Playing around with the "United Federation" origin from the mod Stronger Starting Origins (along with a healthy dose of FUBAR opening scenarios) made me realize that the origin "Common Ground" is underpowered as all get-out and needs an overhaul.

What does that mean? Who knows! I'm tired.

[TheStoryEnthusiast]

Effect ideas:

• [ ] Federation starts at level 2 (+neutral cohesion)
• [ ] Start with two outposts claiming neighboring systems
  • [ ] One of those systems will have a habitable planet (random biome)
  • [x] Your home-world is a relic world
  • [x] Should the home-world have some sort of bonus as the old Galactic Imperium throne?
• [ ] Start with 2 federation members
  • [ ] Federation members occupy all surrounding space
  • [ ] Make sure only certain ethics / authorities / civics can be selected by fed members
• [x] Make pacts produce shit!

[TheStoryEnthusiast]

Obvious things I totally forgot to mention:

• [x] Buff to diplo weight
• [x] Triple the influence cost of expanding
• [x] Colonies cost a shit ton of empire sprawl
• [x] Immense bonus to immigration pull

[TheStoryEnthusiast]

Issues so far:

• [ ] Initial city districts don't provide clerk jobs???
• [ ] Ten unemployed pops at start (technically 14 but 4 of those would be taken by the missing clerks)
  • [x] Reduce starting pops by 3 to help this issue
• [ ] Static Modifier "Seat of the New League" doesn't provide any of the planned bonuses
  • [x] Immigration bonus
  • [ ] Resource production from pacts
• [ ] One fed member spawns 4 jumps away (the other member is still 1 jump away)
• [ ] Someone always leaves the federation by month 6
• [x] Remove "Collapsed Spire / Central Spire" feature
• [x] Remove "Massive Crevice / Industrial Sector" feature
• [x] Remove all "Ruined Arcology" blockers
• [x] Add 2 or 3 "Sprawling Slums" blockers

Ideas that might possibly help with the fixing:

• [x] Tie the effects of "Seat of the New League" to new, unique jobs?
  • [ ] "Director of Tourism" that increases immigration pull
  • [x] "Director of Imports" that creates the 3 basic resources from pacts
  • [x] "Director of Xenology" that creates the 3 research resources from pacts
  • [x] "Director of Culture" that creates unity from pacts

[TheStoryEnthusiast]

More issues:

• [ ] Doesn't start with pops on each other's capital?
• [ ] Moving the "diplomacy_produces_add" country modifiers to jobs didn't help even though the game recognizes that "diplomacy" is an economic category with the ability to have "produces_add"