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Simple Traditions

For 3.8.X ✔️

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This mod adds 5 additional tradition trees to the base game.

• Industry
  
• Science
  
• Navy
  
• Government
  
• Leadership

Below you will find descriptions for what each tree does.

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This one focuses on improving your ability to extract basic resources.
Adoption Bonus:
Your mining stations cost 50% less and are built 100% faster.
Layered Shifts:
Your workers (or menial drones if you are hive or machine) produce 5% more resources.
Compact Extraction Centers:
All your planets gain 10 housing.
Rare Resource Extraction:
Production of rare crystals, exotic gases and volatile motes increased by 20% (jobs only).
Refined Forges:
Your metallurgists and artisans gain a flat 0.2 bonus to their production.
Optimized Algorithms:
Your mining stations produce 20% more resources.
Finisher Bonus:
You unlock 4 planetary decisions that improve either miner job output, or technician job output, or farmer job output, or refinery, artisan & metallurgist job output by between 10~20% and a minor downside such as increased upkeep (you can only choose one per planet).

This one focuses on increasing your research output.
Adoption Bonus:
Your research stations cost 50% less and are built 100% faster.
Signature Research Field:
you gain 20% research speed in a field of your choice. (Particles, industry, biology, etc.) furthermore, you gain a 10% boost in the overall category depending on your choice (engineering, physics or society).
Research Grants:
Increases physics, society and engineering output from researchers by 10%.
Advanced Studies:
researcher upkeep reduced by 20% and all researchers produce 0.5 unity.
Science Director:
Grants every planet 1 science director job (or 1 brain drone or calculator job if you are machine or hive)
Exotic Experiments:
Research station output increased by 20%.
Finisher Bonus:
Unlocks the Science Focus policies, allowing you to get a +15% research speed bonus in either engineering, society or physics, while receiving a -5% in the other two. Alternatively, you can get a +7.5% in two of your choice while the third receives a -5%, or lastly just a flat +5% across the board.

This one focuses on improving your ships.
Adoption Bonus:
Ship weapon damage increased by 5%.
Electromagnetic Propulsion:
Choose between 30% sublight speed or 10% longer weapon range.
Design Considerations:
Choose between 15% lower ship maintenance or 10% lower ship build costs.
Offensive Capabilities:
Choose between 10% more damage to kinetic weapons or energy weapons, or 5% more damage and 50% faster missiles.
Carrier Operations:
Choose between 50% faster and 15% more damage and fire rate for your strike craft or 50% more damage and fire rate for your point defense weapons.
Defensive Capabilities:
Choose between 5% more hit points and 15% hardening for either shield or armor, or 10% more hull hit points.
Finisher Bonus:
Ship accuracy and evasion increased by 5%.

This one focuses on improving the effectiveness of your empire.
Adoption Bonus:
Stability increased by 5%.
Controlled State:
Governing ethics attraction +25% (+10% pop assembly speed for machines and +10% pop growth for hive).
Central Administration:
Empire size penalties reduced by 10%.
Unison:
Increases monthly unity by 10%.
Service Arrangement:
15% more amenities.
Stellar Government:
Edict fund increased by 10 and an additional 10%.
Finisher Bonus:
1 more civic slot.

This one focuses on improving the effectiveness of your leaders.
Adoption Bonus:
Unlocks the galactiv university building, which grants 1 administrator job, 1 science director job and 2 culture worker jobs. (with similar versions for machine, hive and megacorp).
Internships:
Leader experience gain is increased by 25%.
Knowledge Download:
Unlocks a special edict (that requires the Galactic University on your capital), called knowledge download, when active all your leaders gain 4 experience a month (this is affected by leader experience gain).
Life Extension:
Your leaders gain 20 years of extra lifespan (-20% leader upkeep for machine).
Extended Schooling:
The max level of your leaders is increased by 1.
Ruler's Cabinet:
Increase your monthly influence by 0.5
Adds 1 envoy.
Finisher Bonus:
Provided you possess the Galactic University on your capital, all your leaders gain a special trait called Galactic Graduate, which grants several bonuses to all your leaders.

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This mod makes no changes to vanilla files. So should be comptatible with most mods.

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These are unofficial translations of my mod, i am not the author of these nor can i vouch for their quality, use at your own risk:
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