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capital buildings give influence

I was always frustrated by how slow influence is gathered, and how little can be done to change it, and how much it prevented me from expanding or enjoying the diplomatic systems and federations, as well as things like megastructures so I made this mod.

Reasoning
This mod serves both a gameplay and narrative purpose, respectively, It's so annoying for me to wait months to get enough influence to expand into more star systems, and the amount of influence that you get does not change that much with the size of your empire, which doesn't make sense, a larger empire should definitely have more influence than a smaller one, and, on top of that, if you want to expand quickly, you won't have enough Influence so you basically can't control your factions or participate in federations or the galactic community

The Solution
This mod makes every capital building have an upkeep of -1 influence. Capital buildings are built as soon as the planet is fully colonised and include the reassembled ship shelters, planetary administrations, and so on. capital buildings can't be built more than once per colony, are always on a colony, and their upkeep (I don't think at least) isn't affected like other buildings. For these reasons the amount of colonies is directly proportional to the amount of influence you have, much more like real life.


Edit: if you have any other mods that also affect the buildings/00_capital_buildings.txt file, like starnet, you will have to put this mod below them.