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Realistic Public Order (6.1 Ready)

Update 3.1:
Realistic Public Order (as of 07/18/23) is now even more realistic! Please see updated pictures for low control and the relevant section in the Low Control section below.
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Update 3.0:
Realistic Public Order (as of 04/15/23) is now even more realistic! Please see the updated description below for the long version and the reasoning, or see the newly uploaded pictures for the quick version

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Why does public order get better when things are spiraling out of control? Why does your population get angry as soon as things start getting better for them? Are you tired of CA holding your hand with public order? Then this mod is for you.

This mod fully changes the public order bonus and penalties for low control and high control.

New in 3.1: No longer is public order the only thing changed by low control! Now, for added realism, low control causes: less growth, higher construction costs, longer construction times, lower casualty replenishment, higher recruitment costs, higher recruitment durations (for very low control), and less income from buildings! Basically, everything you'd expect from a failing city.

No more will a population at the brink of open revolt have a public order boost. Does that really make sense? When anarchy reigns and riots are everywhere, does the population really get happier? Does that environment make a revolt more or less likely? CA says less. I say more - and if you're here, you probably think the answer is also more.

Outraged populations now go from a boost of +8 public order to a penalty of -12 public order. If your population is outraged, things will quickly spiral out of control. Unhappy populations go from +4 public order to -6 public order. Troubled populations go from +2 to -2 public order.

The point of this mod is to make establishing public order in your new territories a top priority to prevent rapidly deteriorating conditions in it. Without intervention, an unhappy population will get worse over time, not better, and if you don't do something quickly you'll soon experience repeated rebellions - as should be expected.

Originally with this mod, high control was basically the safe zone. Once you got out of the negative, the rest would take care of itself. This is no longer the case. Initially, as you start making things safer in your city, the population will be happier and you'll get a slight boost. However, as you continue tightening control, the population will begin murmuring with discontent. As you make your control even tighter, the population will resist your iron fist even more.

There is now a slight boost to control with with "tightened" control (+2 public order), there is now a small debuff to control with "strong" control (-3 public order), and there is a large debuff with "absolute" control (-8 public order).

The aim of this change, besides making public order more realistic, is to make public order something you still have to work a bit at to maximize. Rather than just be a "fix it and forget it" mechanic, public order will take more micromanagement to make sure you are getting the best out of your cities. Once you establish control, you are unlikely to see your cities spiral out of control, but you will have to expend more effort to keep your control "absolute" than before.

Edit 11/15/2022
One side effect of this new public order system worth noting is that because these changes effect the AI as well, the player has a much more useful tactic with sacking enemy settlements. The public order hit the AI will take may push it into the negative, and instead of CA's system essentially blocking rebellion in the AI territory, the new public order will help spur that rebellion. Meaning, the player can actually spark rebellions with sacking and agent actions in a way that was not possible before.
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Just beware adding this mod when you have a bunch of low public order settlements unless you are ready for rampant rebellions.

All screenshots are from modded values.
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Like all GOW mods, this mod has been cleaned to minimize potential conflicts with other mods. This means my mod will not accidentally overwrite someone else's mod changes in an unrelated area. My mod will only conflict with mods that change the exact same things I do.