Xenofactions: Prestige & Nation Economy Overhaul

Prestige System

• Completely rebalanced prestige generation, upkeep, claim costs, city costs, and building costs.
• Added land upkeep costs.
• Rebalanced building prestige values and upkeep costs across the board.
• Medical Tents now consume prestige instead of generating it.
• Warp Tents now have significantly higher upkeep costs.
• Additional city settlements now cost progressively more as factions expand.
• Rescaled faction prestige titles for the new prestige economy.
• War declaration costs now scale based on the target faction's prestige level.

War & National Stability

• Declaring war now costs prestige.

• Ongoing wars now apply increasing prestige upkeep over time.

• Long wars become progressively more expensive to sustain.

• Surrendering now transfers 50% of the losing faction's prestige generation to the victor for 84 hours.

• Added Prestige Bankruptcy stages with escalating penalties:

  • Financial Crisis
  • National Collapse
  • Fallen Nation

Cities

• Added a city rename popup after founding a city.
• Fixed the city rename command to correctly rename cities.
• City founding now displays the prestige cost before creation.
• City levels now start at Level 1 instead of Level 2.
• City upgrades now display upgrade costs and upkeep changes before confirmation.
• Added a 10-second confirmation window for city upgrades.
• Fixed City Center conquest so captured cities transfer their generated claims to the conquering faction.
• City Centers can now only be broken by faction leaders.
• City Centers can no longer be broken during wars.

Fixes

• Fixed conquered City Centers not transferring associated territory claims to the conquering faction.