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Captured City Less Death No Building Loss

Version 2: Recycling Center now has a 100% capture rate just like most other buildings in the mod. The mechanism for preventing a player from having more than 5 Recycling Centers already makes it so the capture rate drops to 0% once you reach the quota.

I know this has been done before, but I just wanted to make my own version of this.

Citizen survival rate increased from 50% to 77% when capturing cities. This means when you capture a city it will be more productive in the long run, although in the short run the city will be in resistance longer, more unhappiness and more turns needed for razing the city. On the other hand, if you are the defending civilization, in the default game you would lose about 75% of your population if you recapture the city but with this mod population loss is about 41%.

(Why 77%? Because it's the approximate value of 1-(1/e)[1-(1/e)]... actually it doesn't really matter, any value above 70% and below 82% is good, because at 70% when the city is captured twice population loss is more than 50% which means the mod is not impactful enough, and at 82% when the city is captured twice population loss is less than 33% which I feel is not punishing enough.)

All buildings, with the exception of Courthouse (because a free Courthouse is unfair), Palace and National Wonders, will not be destroyed upon capture, while in the default game most buildings have either a 66% or a 0% chance of survival. Without the mod you would lose all your 0% survival buildings (Military buildings, Defense buildings, Monuments etc.) and about 56% of the rest when you recapture your city, but in this mod there will be no lost buildings excluding the aforementioned exceptions.

Does not require any DLC. Works with my other mods.