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SaltingBegone

Salting the Earth takes a number of turns equal to half the population plus one, and all settlers increase empire scale.

Based on Xumuk's mod, found here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1867342023

Why does this mod exist?
While the above mod does a good job of removing the exploits that salting provides, I personally found it didn't go far enough.

For each change:
Salting the Earth takes a number of turns equal to half the population plus one.
Salting the Earth obviously shouldn't be used to skirt around the Empire Plan and Luxury Booster costs, but in the style of game I like to play (large political multiplayer free-for-alls) a large, valuable city (or several) should not be removed from the map in a single turn. Denying your opponent the spoils of war (or, if you took someone's city and are salting it so they don't get it back) should be possible, but not easy.
The number of turns will probably be adjusted in the future when I can, preferably so that game speed affects how long it takes.

All settlers increase empire scale.
While the above mod makes it so that settlers made by salting the earth increase empire scale, I frankly think that settlers made normally should too. Otherwise, you end up in the not-quite-as-exploitative but still pretty cheesy strategy of waiting to settle (sometimes multiple!) cities till after you have activated your plan and boosters for the next 10+ turns. You can still time your settler production, but the payoff is much less, as you don't have the new city or cities down yet.

Future changes include more tool tip fixes (perhaps getting the turns required section for Salt fixed somehow) and setting turns required to change based on game speed.