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Diversity Cap

Limits the number of population types that can scale certain Ecologist laws and Unfallen improvements.

The laws "All Hands Dictum" and "Power to the People", as well as the "Center of Light and Life" and "Harmony of the Heart" improvements from the Unfallen faction quest give bonuses for each distinct population type present in the system. A fun idea, but shuttling pops around to make best use of them gets old after the first few.

This patch aims to cut the tedium while keeping their "spirit" by capping the bonus out at 5 distinct types (this is, not completely by coincidence, the maximum number that are shown in the summary panel on the left side of the system view). The empire's native population type also no longer counts. The bonus per type is stronger to compensate.

In summary:

- "Power to the People": "+2% science per population type" to "+3% science per foreign population type (up to +15%)"
- "All Hands Dictum": "+2% industry per population type" to "+3% industry per foreign population type (up to +15%)"
- "Center of Light and Life": "+10 science per population type" to "+15 science per foreign population type (up to +75)"
- "Harmony of the Heart": "+5 approval per population type" to "+8 approval per foreign population type (up to +40)"

Works with both Excellent Space and ESG, but note that if using the ESG with its "Law Rework" enabled, the law part of this won't have effect, because the "reworked" laws already replace the per population type bonus with something else.