Capitalist Conquest
Allows Players to buy other Sponsors with Energy and take over their cities.
Yes indeed. With this mod, you too can own your own pet Sponsor. Or maybe two? Or maybe… a whole planet? Well… I hope you have the Energy storages to make such a luxurious purchase, because you’ll surely need it.
With this mod, players can buy other Sponsors and gain ownership of all their stuff. Well, most of their stuff, their units will be disbanded, and their outposts destroyed. But their cities and their workers, yes, you can have them. Well, the population might not like their new owner and rebel for a while, and the other Sponsors might see you as a filthy Capitalist Swine on the level of a warmonger, but let’s not get bogged down by details, right? All of those shiny cities can be yours, and you don’t even have to have military to conquer them.
The Energy Cost required to buy other sponsors goes up dynamically as they found more cities, gain more population and enmass larger Energy reserves themselves. Buying a sponsor is understandably quite expensive and will require the player to focus quite heavily on producing Energy.
I won’t get into details about the formula here, but if you want you can go to the Mod folder (DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier’s Civilization Beyond EarthMODS) and open the file Costuomization.xml with a text editor to see and edit the variables involved to your liking. It’s difficult to balance such a mod for all difficulties and player skill levels, so if you feel sponsors are too easy or hard to buy, go ahead and edit things to your liking. 😉
All Sponsors now also put a higher value on Energy.
Limitations/Known Bugs:
– If Outposts are destroyed as a result of buying a Sponsor, the outpost label will not be properly removed from the map. This bug cannot be prevented without replacing a base game file and thus creating compatibility issues, but can be resolved by reloading the game, but just ignoring the label will also not cause any problems.
