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Sabo's Balance Mod

This mod is mainly for people who min/max a lot and therefore know that there are only 5 or so builds that are viable in "competitive" Stellaris.

I have made a couple of changes to balance out builds that aren't good at the moment. Like Trade focused builds, Hive Minds, Lithoid Bio Empire or Spiritualists on top of that I added repeatable unity edicts to make unity useful in the late game and maybe even a resource that is able to compete with science in the long run.

PLEASE NOTE that this mod is still not completly finished. I will add more stuff to it and probably frequently rebalance values in order to achieve a somewhat balanced mod.
I don't want to make Stellaris 100% balanced that's impossible. What I wanna do is evening out the odds between different playstyles.

• +2 farmer output base for hives
  
• Hives researchers have food upkeep now
  
• +2 miner output base for lithoids
  
• +4 miner output for lithoud hives
  
• necrophage lithoids don't get +2 miner base output
  
• lithoids that complete the synthetic evolution lose their +2 miner output
  
• 3 Trade Value techs have been added, to mirror energy credits and minerals, each of them increases trade by 20%
  
• 1 repeatable trade tech has been added, to mirror energy and minerals, for +5% trade
  
• trade hubs buffed to now give 2 trade value which gets further buffed through the offworld trading company and the +100% station output from Unchained Knowledge tree in the galatic community. Putting them at a base of 8 Trade with these buffs compared to the base 12 that solar panels have at this point
  
• Priest Jobs now give +2.5% Stab and Resource Production and reduce pop growth by 2.5% capped at 15%
  
• Executives and Manager Jobs for mega corps buffed to give a bit more Trade Value. Executives now give +2 Trade and +2.5% Trade Value and Mangers +1 and 0.5% Trade(they were kinda left behind after the clerk buff)
  
• Increased amount of unity repeatables to 8 from 5 and made them more interesting they are now called "Focused Traditions" therefore there is 1 repeatable for each Tradition. Also made them a bit cheaper. PLEASE NOTE Currently the unity repeatables aren't working as intended(the modifier shows the correct value but does only apply the base value) that's an oversight on paradox's end and it's already confirmed by a dev that this issues is fixed in the next update.
  
• Changed base leader lvl cap from 5 to 10 and extended leader lvl cap from 10 to 40. leader xp gain increased to account for that

• buff psionic ascension to make the spiritualist playstyle more viable
  
• probably a few more job changes.. XD(looking at you nobles)
  
• Have a look at machine empires, void dwellers and necrophages and maybe find a way to make them less oppressive

I try to make this mod as compatible as possible to others mods. However sometimes I have to decide between
100% compatibility and a solution that puts additional load on the game which might result in performance issues if I do that too much.
I will provide documentation of which files I overwrite(that's usually only necessary for FIOS files) and what defines I modify and where to find the modified version.

I won't always have time to write compatibility patches but will do my best to provide those if needed.

Overwrites



If you have a bug to report or a suggestion to make be my guest in the comment section

Special Thanks

Special thanks goes to the Stellaris Modding Den and in particular to

• Old Ent
  
• Corsairmarks
  
• Erdnuss

for helping me out multiple times with this mod.