Fabulous Forecast

This mod improves the civics Astrometeorology, Weather Exploitation, Climate Modeling (for hiveminds) and Climate Modeling (for machine intelligences) from the Cosmic Storms DLC to make them actually worth picking.

The big issue with the implementation of astrometeorology civics is that all they do is give you access to one building that gives you two jobs and which is limited to one per planet and that’s it. The jobs are solid, but you basically get two jobs per colony at the cost of a building slot. For a civic pick that may cut it for the first couple decades of a game, but it’s a dead end and you’d best reform out of it when you get your 3rd civic point.

The first thing this mod does is change the Astrometeorology Observatory into a replacement for the Research Institute. So you get 1 per empire, but it also gives you +5% research speed and +1 scientist capacity, which you’ll appreciate when you get it at the start of the game.

The second thing the mod does is that astrometeorologist empires get Astrometeorologists jobs instead of Researcher jobs from their storm attraction/repulsion buildings. If you’re going to have to spam a building on every planet to get Astrometeorologists, you might as well get 4 of them for your trouble.

Finally, storm attraction/repulsion buildings of astrometeorologist empires are twice as effective at attracting/repulsing storms as usual. Instead of the normal 40% and 60% attraction/repulsion for basic and upgraded building you get 80% and 120%.

The mod additionally modifies the jobs provided by Storm Relief Center and Storm Nullifier. Instead of providing Clerks or Maintenance Drones the buildings now provide a unity job which changes based on your empire. It defaults to Bureaucrat, but changes to Priest/Haruspex for regular spiritualists, changes to Manager for most megacorps, changes to Steward for Worker Cooperatives, changes to Synapse Drone for hiveminds and changes to Coordinator for machine intelligences.

This is a gameplay altering mod and as such it will prevent you from getting achievements.

The mod overwrites several building entries (Astrometeorological Observatory, Storm Attraction Center, Advanced Storm Attraction Center, Storm Repulsion Center, Advanced Storm Repulsion Center, Storm Relief Center, Storm Nullifier, Research Institute and Planetary Supercomputer) and a technology (Interplanetary Research Initiative). If another mod overwrites the same things it will not be compatible with this mod, but I expect most mods will be compatible.

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