Worker’s Unions – Stellaris Hard Mode
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Is Stellaris too easy and the AI too weak, but do you hate just giving the AI a bunch of free stuff, by playing on a higher difficulty than Ensign?
This might be the mod for you.
I believe one of reasons the AI is weak in Stellaris is that it likes to build more-or-less balanced planets, while players prefer to build very specialized planets – which is a completely overpowered strategy.
This mod severely nerfs that playstyle without making it impossible.
This mod adds new factions for various pop professions, such as a "Miner’s Union".
Additionally, having a lot of pops of one type on a planet will give them considerable political power – and they will use it. You will now have to either meet their demands and expend resources to keep them happy, or ignore them and take a hit to resource production and stability.
As soon as there are a certain number of (unhappy) worker pops in your empire, they will start forming union factions. Additionally, once there are a certain number of such pops on a planet, unions will open a branch office there.
Any branch office will slightly reduce resource production but give you additional jobs. Unhappy unions will considerably reduce stability and resource production.
– Three types of unions: Farmers, Miners, Technicians
– Unions open "Branch Offices"
– Branch Offices organize strikes and reduce resource production
– More labour/trade union types
– More demands
– Event chains to add flavor
– Policies to outlaw unions altogether or just outlaw strikes
– Find ways to nerf robots / slaves – who can’t be in worker’s unions
This mod doesn’t overwrite any file, so it should be compatible with everything.
