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Improved Production Tech - Rebalanced (OBSOLETE)

In 4.0, Paradox has fixed this tech
Basically, the tech is working as intended, it multiplies the production and upkeep after all the other bonuses are added, like the throughput techs in Victoria 2.

Ever looked at the Improved Production technology and think it's terrible?

Clearly Not Ironman compatible, I mean, if you found this mod it means you have searched for it, or it's on the front page I hope, then great! For me at least.

Why the tech in its current state is not balanced.
I mean, +10% resource from jobs for +10% upkeep seems like a great deal! However , it does not exactly work that way. This is due to the fact that you have other bonuses to production from buildings, governors and other techs. Meaning if you already have a +150% bonus to output which is relatively easy to obtain, that +10% is going to make it +160%, so you're only getting +6.66% instead of +10% more, however, the upkeep is +10% ! This isn't even counting the fact that if you have ascension tiers and have a -70% upkeep, it would mean that the +10% upkeep would result in you having to pay +33.3% more upkeep!
Meaning the more you progress through the game, the worse this tech gets.

This is truly a Paradox Infinite Wisdom moment.

This mod rebalances that.

Changes made!
- Every tier of the Improved Production Tech has their +10% Job Upkeep increase removed.
- Every tier of the Improved Production Tech has their +10% Bonus to Jobs reduced to +5%.

Compatibility
Should be compatible with any mod that doesn't touch the following files.
- "00_capital_buildings.txt" found in "common\buildings"
- "nemesis_espionage_l_english.yml" found in "localisation\english"

Stellaris Evolved Compatibility Patch Here!

This specific localisation has been overwritten as Paradox in their Infinite Wisdom placed the description of the tech inside that file, also creating a folder called "replaced" doesn't seem to work. Hence, I have to overwrite the entire file.

This is my second mod! So I am not sure if this is a great solution, please let me know in the comments if you have any feedback.

I might make another mod in the future that fixes this tech to fulfil the original purpose which is the throughput techs in Victoria II, or you can just imagine it as producing things faster, meaning pops produce but also proportionately have higher upkeep, keeping the resource efficiency the same while increasing pop efficiency.