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Apartment Buff (v66)

Affects all housing

• Buffs the last housing upgrade in order to make apartments equal to houses and longhouses once fully upgraded
  
• Apartments get a 20% buff from 5 to 6 max residents
  
• Houses and longhouses get a ~11% buff from 9 to 10 and 18 to 20 respectively

Apartments are slightly worse than houses and longhouses on top of being less dense. It annoyed me and there is no real reason for it as the dev stated his idea was to make the difference purely cosmetic, so I made this mod for myself and figured I'd upload it in case anyone who feels similarly wants to use it.

Fully upgraded vanilla apartments provide housing for one pop per 1.8 tiles, while houses and longhouses do so for 1.667 tiles, making them better in 99% of scenarios. Making apartments 1.667 too is impossible with their current layout unless you start to cut people in half, undoubtedly affecting their productivity.
I didn't want to straight up just make apartments better since the goal is to make the difference cosmetic, so this mod simply changes it to 1.5 tiles per pop for them all, which is the simplest solution I could think of with a very negligible effect on balance, if any.

• Script mod, may conflict with other mods/temporarily break after game updates
  
• v66 only
  
• Will affect any other indoor pasture from potential other mods
  
• May cause a crash in saves with high population (trying to fix it), removing it from an ongoing save requires extra steps:
  You have to first empty all your fully upgraded homes (click on one -> assign -> set permission for none -> drag over the entire map, you don't have to unpause the game). Otherwise the game will crash because it apparently can't gracefully handle there being more than the max residents in a home. If you do this beforehand there shouldn't be any issues.

And yes, I've been using garthimi in my labs.