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Real Science Pace

This mod is no longer maintained.

Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm note. This mod works with expansions. However, it does not support any specific R&F nor GS "sciency" features or changes.

Science from population is drastically reduced and it's no more the deciding factor - what matters are Campuses, scientists, alliances with City States, Policies and of course Great Scientists. But there's a catch - every new Campus you build will decrease scientific buildings' output slightly (6%-9%, depending on the building). Science-related bonuses from Policies and City States are mostly halved (e.g. 100% bonuses are now 50%, 10% alliance bonus is 5% now).
This mod makes the wide game HARDER, not easier. You need to carefully optimize your approach to research!

You may find more detailed description on CivFanatics[forums.civfanatics.com].

There are a few carefully chosen and balanced changes:
- Decreased significantly science from population.
- Increased yields from science buildings.
- Number of Campuses impacts science output from scientific buildings. Each one (except the first) decreases their output by 6-9%, dependind on the building.
- Decreased bonuses from few Policies.
Tech costs are adjusted to accomodate the above changes.

- You cannot just spam Campuses. After 4-5 of them the scientific buildings will simply become not worth the investment.
- You can go wide and have big empire, but this will not help much as yields from population are much lower.
- Start will be tougher. In Ancient Era science will be very scarce. You will treasure every single beaker. +2 science from sending 1 envoy to scientific CS is a big deal. Any tile that can be worked that generates science will be important. Natural Wonders will be of great help.
- Later on, placement of Campuses will be even more important as adjacency bonuses are more important. 2 mountains with a bonus can be as valuable as a University. But you have to find a good spot early.
- Also, City-States will be more important as their flat bonuses have not changed.
- AI is actually quite good at optimizing science output, it never builds more Campuses than necessary (meaning still having decent output from Campus buildings).
- The tech costs are adjusted to well-performing AIs (2-3 leaders from a standard size game) on Prince. Since AIs get big bonuses on higher difficulties, expect the game to be much more challenging.

I highly recommend to use this mod together with Real Tech Tree mod. RTT decreases Eurekas to 35% and fills gaps in tech & civic trees. It makes for a much more balanced game.

This mod uses a script from '8 Ages of Pace' by Olleus to adjust tech cost