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Narf's Fixes - Gene Clinics

In vanilla, gene clinics take decades to break even, and decades more to turn a profit.

This is a total net loss compared to almost anything else you can build, which will break even in about the first year or two, and turn a profit within another year or two.

This mod fixes this, by reducing the time needed for gene clinics to turn a profit.

Gene clinics now provide:
- +25% organic pop growth speed (up from +10%).
- +25 amineities (up from +10).

Gene clinics should now pay off in the short term and long term.

Edit: So to explain the math behind this mod: It takes 5 pops for a building slot. For an example to do some math off of, we can build an Alloy Foundry now, or we can build a vanilla Gene Clinic, and then an Alloy Foundry. Let's say compare that. For this example, we will ignore all other possible bonuses to growth speed. (If you run the math, you will find that they make Gene Clinics comparatively worse)

We get +10% pop growth speed and +10 amenities. Our base growth is +3; it is now +3.3. We need +5 pops for another building slot so we can build an Alloy Foundry, plus the base 5 pops for the Gene Clinic. We need 500 pop growth for +5 pops. Remember, fractions don't count for this purpose; we need a whole month.

Alloy Foundry: 500 / 3 = 167 months for +5 pops.
Gene Clinic and Alloy Foundry: 1,000 / 3.3 = 304 months for +10 pops.

So Gene Clinics already show little benefit. But their benefits will increase the longer we grow pops. Alright; how long does it take for a Gene Clinic to turn a profit? Let's compare building a Gene Clinic, a Holo Theatre and an Alloy Foundry with just building a Holo Theatre and an Alloy Foundry.

Holo Theatre and Alloy Foundry: 1,000 / 3 = 334 months for +10 pops.
Gene Clinic, Holo Theatre, and Alloy Foundry: 1,500 / 3.3 = 455 months for +15 pops.

Better, but still not there. What's the break-even point? Well...

Holo Theatre and +10 Alloy Foundries: 5,500 / 3 = 1834 months for +55 pops.
Gene Clinic and +10 Alloy Foundries: 5,500 / 3.3 = 1667 months for +55 pops.

1667 months to break even. It will take an equal amount of time for the Gene Clinic to turn a profit, for a total of 277.833~ *years*.

Where does this mod move this balance point?

Holo Theatre and +4 Alloy Foundries: 2,500 / 3 = 834 months for +25 pops.
Gene Clinic and +4 Alloy Foundries: 2,500 / 3.75 = 667 months for +25 pops.

And a total of 111.166~ years to turn a profit.

If anything, the bonus is probably still too low; consider comparing a gene clinic with three +10% pop growth speed tech bonuses - Which are not all that hard to get, and empire-wide.