Hate asking but will this be updated, really liked the work done with this. Unless none was needed, in any case would like to know, thank you.

I've rather felt the Districts contributing to Empire Sprawl has been unfortunate. Districts are just so needed and you need /so many/ to get a proper empire going.

Thank you, Ashwood, for pushing me into the right thinking! ;)

Alright, here we go with an alternative:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1601520485

I did not wanted to brake the vanilla balance completely giving all ruler jobs an AC production - in that case one can hardly ever encounter hitting the admin cap at all. I personally play with Technocracy civic, so I have some Admins replaced with Science Directors in my case. And still I can grow much further and longer in time without starting to worry about the Admin Cap.

But realism is somewhat important to me. I look on the admin cap mechanic in a technical way. Managing colonial and stellar infrastructure is not a task for a noble or a scientist - it is purely an administrator expertise IRL.

Yes, not all of the empires' configurations benefit equally from this mod, but comparing to vanilla balance - it is always a plus, even purely because of AC cost of systems and districts. The +AC from Admins is more like a bonus. You may think it that way.

Maybe the more uniform approach would be to tie up the +AC to the level of the capital building? I am not sure yet...

I really like your mod, your reworked numbers are perfect. The only problem is when you take a goverment policy like having nobles which replaces administrator jobs with nobles and your mod doesn't count the nobles for admin cap increases as it should. This works amazing for robots but is broken for special jobs that replace administrative jobs. If you could fix this i would greatly appreicaite it since i play imperial goverment with nobles tech. Thank you.

the reason i dont like the 0 cost was primarily aimed at the way i play, i like to have 3-4 core planets with good development then have smaller rescource grind planets to fill the gaps in the economy, but as the AI is indeed maxing them its probably better to have lower costs for districts

"for some reason i just dont like having maxed planets everywhere" - the AI will max out districts anyway, but the player has an option to destroy the districts.
?! O_o

Done. Districts cost 0.1 AC now. Let's try this!

I am not going into mod cloning, but few play-throughs convinced me that 0 cost for districts is a bit OP. I will do 0.1 cost for them.

might be too much to ask but could you copy this mod with a 0.5 district, for some reason i just dont like having maxed planets everywhere

I think 0 is good.

Possible, of course, and I've seen few mods that rebalance AC costs of districts, systems and colonies. But for this mod, for now, I'll keep them at 0. Maybe later will do some more tweaks, but so far I think the balance is OK. Will see. ;)

districts should become 0.5 AC if thats possible