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Rebalanced Royal Court

This mod is part of a broader "Rebalanced" lightweight mods series. (A breakdown from the former "Rebalanced +" mod)

I essentially made each mechanism its own submod so that players could pick only the aspects they want to see modified/added.

Indeed, everyone has a different idea of what needs tweaking in the vanilla game and what does not.

"Why not make everything Game Rule ?" one might ask ; i felt like having those as separate mods would make it easier from a player's perspective, as most people don't even bother tweaking the game rules.

It's also a little easier maintenance-wise on my end, and - I feel - more readable for players. You'll know exactly what you're modifying from your subscriptions/playsets.

All these mods will include a Game Rule (IF APPLICABLE) which will give you 5 settings :
- Values set to 33% of default - way easier/lighter
- Values set to 66% of default - easier/lighter
- Default (intended setting to play the mod)
- Values set to 150% of default - harder/heavier
- Values set to 200% of default - way harder/heavier



This mod makes the following changes :
- Court Amenities cost scale with your current income. Maxing out the Amenities won't be as much of a no brainer as before as, if all 4 at lvl 5 it will cost you between 14% and 22% of your (positive) income
- Halved "Above Expected Level" bonuses, as the base values are completely bonkers and so easy to abuse early on
- Halved the "Small size" multiplier to "Above Expected Level" 4 ---> 2 for small realms
- Halved the "Small Size" threshold 100 Realm Size ---> 50
- Court Grandeur Tiers from 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 ---> 10 15 20 35 50 60 70 85 95 100
No Game Rule for this one (for now).

Why these changes ? Well, you used to be able to get insane Above Expected Level bonuses as a small kingdom, stacking them with a small realm size when playing tall would give utterly game breaking bonus. Unlocking the Royal Court felt like running the game on a cheat engine. First time I discovered the feature back in the day, it literally ruined the save by skyrocketing my power creep. And then again, "refraining from doing it" is not my philosophy, if it's in the game, it should be usable, make you have to make decisions regarding it weighing pros and cons, and not just be almost algorithmic to get, max it out, and not temper with it ever again.



Pretty much everything that does not modify the NRoyalCourt node.



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