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Attract Talent Assignment Buff

Problem:
Something that frustrated me on my Yellow Turban campaigns was that I would often quickly run out of characters, despite using attract talent as often as possible.

I decided to see how the assignment works:

• The assignment was 5 turns long and had a 1 turn recall period.
  
• For each character per turn using the assignment, there is a 33% chance of getting the dilemma for the duration of the assignment.
  
• Once that dilemma has fired though, no other recruitment dilemma could occur for 5 turns.

This essentially means that you would need to dedicate around 3 characters to performing the assignment all the game to roughly provide 1 fresh recruit every 5 turns. Any more characters on assignment would have no additional impact - 1 character per 5 turns is your limit.

This is not enough as it is pretty much your ONLY source of characters.

Solution:
As such I have made the following changes to attract talent to make it more reliable, but balanced enough to require thought about how to cycle your characters into assignments and other duties.

• The assignment now only lasts 1 turn, with a 5 turn recall period.
  
• The dilemma has a 75% chance to fire.
  
• The dilemma has no time limit and can fire the next turn.

These changes make the assignment MUCH more reliable and scale-able, but is still balanced with the 5 turn recall.

Future Plans:
I am also looking at the old "man of the hour" events to see if I can bring them back in for additional recruitment.

Compatibility:
This mod edits some vanilla values and may conflict with assignment overhauls (that edit YTR), mods that impact the recruitment dilemma or interact with the YTR assignment script.